by Didact | Aug 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
It is not often that I find myself agreeing with much of what Piers Morgan has to say- especially these days. He is an arrogant ass- which is actually fine in and of itself, since I am one too, and so are many of the people I admire and follow. (As, I imagine, are...
by Didact | Aug 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Following up on what I said earlier about the strengths and weaknesses of Krav Maga relative to MMA, let’s hear what a true living legend has to say about it: If you know anything about the one and only El Guapo, you’ll know that he isn’t...
by Didact | Aug 4, 2016 | gym idiots, Uncategorized
I know it’s hard to believe, but there ARE, in fact, people in the gym who are WORSE than CrossShitters. Our boy Dom breaks it down for you: The only thing he left out was the curl bros. My GOD but I hate those guys. True story: I’d rocked up to the gym...
by Didact | Jul 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Back in the days when I actually did bother to watch network “TellAVision”, as our friend Keoni Galt likes to say, there was a show on ABCNNBCBS called How I Met Your Mother. I am somewhat ashamed to admit- now- that I actually liked some of it. The story...
by Didact | Jul 15, 2016 | Kipling, Uncategorized
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to help the weak in their need, He sent a word to the peoples, who struggle, and pant, and sweat, That the straw might be counted fairly and the tally of bricks be set....
by Didact | Jul 8, 2016 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
A few days ago I checked out Janet Bloomfield’s post on what happens when a woman is forced to assume a man’s role in the dating marketplace. She had basically shared a video from the YouTube channel Darwinian Thought, in which the host provided some...
by Didact | Jul 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
During my recent driving holiday with the family, we were required to drive out to one of the nicer suburbs in the Northeast to spend a couple of days with my aunt’s family. Now, I actually rather like my aunt, and I think very highly indeed of my younger male...
by Didact | Jun 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance...
by Didact | Jun 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
Take up the White Man’s burden-And reap his old reward; The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard- The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light- “Why brought ye us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night?” — From The...
by Didact | Jun 6, 2016 | Kipling, Uncategorized
I referenced this poem in my Memorial Day post, but I only picked out like two great stanzas from one of Kipling’s best ever poems. Unlike a lot of triumphalist poems or songs, this one doesn’t present imperial Britain as a hegemony built on rainbows and...
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