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...
by Didact | Jun 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Michael Bisping is now the new UFC Middleweight Champion?! WTFH?!?!!! Wow. Just… WOWWWWW. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy to see Luke Rockhold get knocked down a few pegs. He is a great fighter who looks like he could wipe the floor with just...
by Didact | May 30, 2016 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
Victoria’s Secret models are, supposedly, among the most beautiful and desirable women in the world. One might be tempted to argue with those definitions with respect to specific cases from time to time, but then one sees things like, well, this: However, as I...
by Didact | May 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Gentlemen, suppose for a moment that we were all transported to a parallel dimension, where normal and sensible things did not happen very often. Suppose that, in such a universe, a certain (overhyped) MMA fighter named Ronda Rousey were taken seriously in her claims...
by Didact | May 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Courtesy of some bloke called @BakedAlaska: Well, he’s sure as hell baked on something. And the excessive use of autotune is, to a purist like me, highly irritating; as far as I’m concerned, if I want to listen to some one using autotune to disguise her...
by Didact | May 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
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 Tuesday night, after Ted Cruz dropped out of the race following...
by Didact | Apr 17, 2016 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
A man so young that he apparently still needs to be told not to stick it in crazy, is clearly attempting to show that he has more money than brains by turning a ho into a housewife: Lindsay Lohan is to be engaged to be married. The 29-year-old Mean Girls vet has...
by Didact | Mar 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Several years back, Bill Whittle produced what I consider to be one of his all-time classic video commentaries, on the difference between Alpha and Beta males. In that video, “Beta Nation”, he outlined precisely why it is that, no matter where you look, no...
by Didact | Mar 22, 2016 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
Image courtesy of El Capitan: If Megyn Kelly is trying to make it clear that she is totally not affected at all, in any way, by The Donald’s quite devastatingly effective attacks on her personality and competence… well, she’s doing a...
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