“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Put the mouse down, Coomer

Paul Joseph Watson reports on the way that No-Nut November is triggering SJWs all over Twatter. It’s a rather sticky subj- uh, I mean, one has to be of a rather stiff disp- er, that is to say, we must erect barr- Ah hell, just watch...

A touch of class

Usually I would just post up an epic collection of awesomeness on a Monday and leave it at that. But, given the fiasco from last Monday’s failed Instathot, the highly trashy nature of this week’s Instathot, and given that we’re getting on toward...
Didactic Mind, Ep 03: From Prince to Pauper

Didactic Mind, Ep 03: From Prince to Pauper

I wasn’t able to record and upload a podcast last night because of travel – was on the road, or rather, on flights, all bloody day long, and didn’t get back into my own place until basically midnight – but here it is, at last: I cover quite a...
Didactic Mind, Ep 03: From Prince to Pauper

Didactic Mind Ep 02: Loss, Pain, and Resiliency

The latest episode of my podcast is ready to go – here it is embedded below for you to listen to at your leisure: Many thanks again to reader Pat Himself for providing some excellent suggestions on how to use Audacity the clean up the track and decrease the...

The heart of a warrior

This video here explains in 7 short minutes exactly what it means to be a student of the martial arts, and why every man needs to learn them at some level: That is easily one of the best videos that Lawrence Kenshin has ever made, and he has a long and distinguished...

The price of beast mode

I was going to save this clip for the usual set of Monday awesomeness, but it is simply too good not to show here. This is a really fascinating interview with Eddie Hall that explains how he was able to do the absolutely impossible and deadlift FIVE HUNDRED...

Grunt-work

Do YOU have what it takes to join Her Majesty’s Royal Marines? I’ll be very honest here: I sure as Hell couldn’t have passed that test, when I was 18. I was very fat and quite slow and my cardiovascular endurance was piss-poor. A year and a bit of...

The Great Squat Debate

There has been a debate raging in lifting circles for many years about the difference between low-bar and high-bar squats. And, honestly, from the perspective of actual lifters – rather than spergy nerds wanking in forums for teh lulz – it’s...

Domain Query: The triumph of steel

Longtime reader and friend of the blog Kapios asks an excellent question related to the severe and dreadful infestation of gym idiots that plagues pretty much every gym, anywhere: If you were a dictator what rules would you change about gyms? I know you mentioned...

Phoning it in

Unfortunately my motivation and ability to write anything much of consequence have both been quite poor over the last couple of days, so I’m going to have to dig up an old favourite of mine: As I’ve said before, every single word is literal truth. It is an...