Why WOULDN’T you want a chainsaw solo?!
JACKYL are deep-fried Southern rock at its hillbilly best. I discovered them after stumbling across their album, Best in Show. It is one of the very few albums that I've ever bought just because I...
Of war without victory
LTC Kratman points out one critically important aspect of 4th-Generation Warfare that I missed in my last post on the subject: My major problem with the notion of 4GW is that it isn't 4GW; it's that...
That’s no moon…
Happy STAR WARS day, y'all: I Don't Normally Care for Cosplay, but... It's always fun to date a girl who has a bit of a Boba Fettish Obi-Wan Was Kind of a Douche... Good Advice EVERYTHING Sounds...
The God-Emperor arises
It's all over bar the shouting now, apparently- The Donald is in fact going to be the Republican nominee for POTUS: Triumphant Donald Trump claimed victory in the Republican presidential contest on...
“Now, witness the firepower of this fully armed and- WTF?!?!?”
Dammit, how is any evil genius megalomaniac supposed to go about smashing electrons together at light-speed in order to create a world-destroying superweapon re-create the conditions that...
4th Generation Warfare and its discontents
These days, it's a $1.2 BILLION bomber I finished reading The 4th Generation Warfare Handbook by William S. Lind and Lt. Col. Gregory A. Thiele (USMC) a few days ago. It was a rather...
Rectal-Cranial Inversion Syndrome never sounded so good
I've often thought that Tuomas Huolopainen- the mastermind behind NIGHTWISH, a.k.a. "THE best symphonic metal band there is"- has his head shoved up his own arse far too often for his own good. All...
Quite.
Bad Puppies! Sit! Stay! Heel!
... Sod off. And shove that newspaper you were about to whack us with up where the Sun don't shine while you're at it: For the second year in a row, nominations for the prestigious Hugo Awards for...
If Beethoven had been a metalhead…
Which he absolutely would have been: EXMORTUS were the opening act for the truly almighty AMON AMARTH last Friday night. Now normally, I could not care less who opens for bands like IRON MAIDEN,...
Vegans for Earth Day
And by vegans, I mean turning vegans into BURGERS, of course. It's Earth Day, which for evil conservative bastards like me is an excuse to fire shotguns, burn petrol, drink beer, hunt deer, and...

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