by Didact | Jul 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’m not exactly up on my pop culture references. I don’t pay attention to pop music now that Billy Joel is retired*. So I’m not really sure who Katy Perry is, or why she’s famous. Oh. Right. And normally, that would be the end of it. But when a...
by Didact | Jul 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t yet read John Ringo’s The Last Centurion, I highly recommend it. For all of its flaws in writing style and narrative flow, it is a highly entertaining, very memorable, and quite enjoyable near-future military fiction novel. It is also a...
by Didact | Jul 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
As if there was ever any doubt as to what women want- and why you should never, ever take their delusions about their own sexual value seriously- this quite hilarious article caught my eye this morning: Jacqui Lambie, an Australian MP who shares the balance of power...
by Didact | Jul 25, 2014 | gym idiots, Uncategorized
Tim Muriello from www.illpumpyouup.com (a fitness supplement and advice site for bodybuilders) has some rather amusing advice for men who think that the idea of dating a fitness-obsessed woman is a Good Idea: As if that wasn’t amusing/silly enough, there’s...
by Didact | Jul 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Mocking feminists is like drop-kicking chihuahuas- not even all that much fun because it’s just too easy So there I was yesterday afternoon, walking down to the riverfront to eat lunch on a beautiful sunny day, minding my own business and generally trying to...
by Didact | Jul 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you take up a martial art and practice it for any serious length of time, you’ll eventually come across the question of which art is “best”. This is a very difficult question to answer properly, and unfortunately most people don’t even...
by Didact | Jul 19, 2014 | gym idiots, Uncategorized
It occurred to me the other day that many of the men that we admire or respect could, in many ways, be considered bat-s*** insane by “normal” standards. Take powerlifters, for instance. Are powerlifters crazy? Is there something wrong with us because we...
by Didact | Jul 15, 2014 | fitness, gym idiots, Uncategorized
One of the most popular posts that I have ever written concerns the use of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancers to achieve gains and strength and body composition results that would otherwise be impossible for natural lifters like me. In that post, I...
by Didact | Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
The always delightful and always outspoken Ms. Barnhardt- she of the hilariously awesome Koran + bacon + lighter fluid video from a couple of years back- came up with a great sci-fi analogy to explain how our most important and cherished institutions have been...
by Didact | Jul 3, 2014 | fitness, Uncategorized
McRapey* recently took to his Twitter feed to congratulate his daughter on her weightlifting achievements. Nothing wrong with that, clearly- but then he went and did something very stupid indeed: This, of course, inevitably caused the rest of us who aren’t a...
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