by Didact | Nov 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Miriam Weeks, aka Belle Knox, aka “the Duke University libertarian freshman porn star who’s totally empowered by getting nailed hard by men she doesn’t know on camera for money”, is normally not a figure for whom I would reserve much sympathy....
by Didact | Nov 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
When you up sticks and move across entire continents to a totally different country, culture, and set of surroundings, the wrenching changes imposed by this move focus your mind on that which you left behind. Coming to the United Kingdom, I knew intellectually that...
by Didact | Nov 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
There are many atrociously stupid ideas floating around in the nebulous, often schizophrenic world of the “management industry”. Apparently, people are willing to pay not exactly small sums of money to be told, by overly smug people with fancy and very...
by Didact | Nov 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Have a badge on us Noise. It is everywhere. All around you, all-pervasive, ever-present, never-ending. The world is a noisy, crowded, bustling place, and always there is something or someone, somewhere, creating noise. It is enough to drive a quiet man to distraction-...
by Didact | Nov 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Have you ever seen a giant panda? In the extremely unlikely event that you’ve been living under a rock for the last, oh, century, here’s what a giant panda looks like: This violates several state laws concerning acceptable levels of cuteness Look at them....
by Didact | Nov 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Truth Right at this moment, fireworks are going off a few miles away at Westminster, as a tribute to Guy Fawkes. For you Americans, who are not particularly familiar with non-American traditions (nor should you be), this is a bloke to whom many of you MOLON LABE...
by Didact | Nov 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. — Quote often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin “I find your lack of cookies disturbing” Today America’s voters went to the polls in one of the country’s innumerable...
by Didact | Nov 3, 2014 | fitness, gym idiots, Uncategorized
The Iron God and I have had, and continue to have, a long and fruitful relationship. I have written many times about the tremendous value to be found in lifting hard and heavy, pushing one’s body and mind to the breaking point and beyond in the crucible that is...
by Didact | Nov 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
So there I was, with about an hour or so to go until the end of the workday and then I could start thinking about leaving and hitting the gym. I was taking a bit of a break (read: goofing off) and surfing teh interwebz looking for mildly interesting content when I...
by Didact | Nov 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
One week before I left the US for my little six-month sojourn to the warm and pleasantly sunny miserably cold, wet, and wind-swept northern realm of the United Kingdom (of Depressing Weather), I had the opportunity to see not one, but two of my favourite...
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