by Didact | Dec 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
What is the greatest friend, teacher, and partner that a man can have? Some- most- would argue that it is a dog. I happen to agree, most of the time- as long as we’re talking about real dogs, like Alsatians or border collies or golden retrievers, not...
by Didact | Dec 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
On a related note- a former boss of mine once gave me a most useful pointer. He pointed me to a website called Despair.com- and ever since then, whenever I’ve wanted to find a suitable image to capture whatever the latest absurd workplace fashion or buzzword is...
by Didact | Nov 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Several different individuals have been credited as the originators of an epigram that goes something like this: Any man who is not a socialist at age 20 has no heart. Any man who is still a socialist at age 40 has no head I’ve seen this quote attributed to...
by Didact | Nov 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Friday the 13th certainly lived up to its ill-fated reputation this year. That was, of course and unfortunately, the day when Islamists- there is no point mincing words- attacked 6 separate targets all over the city of Paris and, in the process, killed at least 129,...
by Didact | Nov 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
I had watched the entire STAR WARS saga, end-to-end, all 18 hours of it, once a year from the age of 20 to 28. Before that, from the time I was 15, that annual binge of the first three movies was a sacred ritual for me. And in all of that time, I never once noticed...
by Didact | Nov 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
I know this dates back a ways, but it’s still a trip to see, given just how many boundaries of WTFness it breaks: … Oh dear. I suspect my brain is going to need to be pieced back together like a jigsaw puzzle now. With superglue. And in case you’re...
by Didact | Nov 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Someday, the parodies of Adolf Hitler completelylosing his sh*t will cease to be hilarious. This is still not that day. Wow. Who knew that Der Fuhrer was such a rabid Rousey fanboy? Or that MMA was a thing back during the final hours of the siege of Berlin, eh?...
by Didact | Nov 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
The new Star Wars movie, I mean. Here, in the form of a single picture, is every reason why I am not: Why does this poster fill me with foreboding? Well, because this is what the poster looked like for Return of the Jedi, filmed over 30 years ago: Notice...
by Didact | Oct 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
If you look really closely, you can see me- #4508- lurking very far away there in the background. I’m the one in the Promethean Warrior-Servant outfit wielding a lightrifle and a hardlight blade. (I’m a big fan of the former- great for both medium-range...
by Didact | Oct 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
That speech from Bill Whittle is from nearly 3 years ago, right after the electoral disaster- and that is what it was- of November 2012. In it, he raises a number of critically important points that I think need to be kept in mind as America enters yet another...
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