by Didact | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
These days, it’s a $1.2 BILLION bomber I finished reading The 4th Generation Warfare Handbook by William S. Lind and Lt. Col. Gregory A. Thiele (USMC) a few days ago. It was a rather interesting distillation of wisdom and ideas from two of the finest...
by Didact | Apr 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
Of late, I have been fielding a bunch of requests from current and former students of my Master’s programme to share with them whatever pearls of wisdom I have picked up over my career. Most of this is of course opportunistic; the professional cynic in me knows...
by Didact | Apr 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
This here is a classic post that my Singaporean counterpart wrote up about three years back. It’s every bit as relevant today as it was back then, given what all has happened since the day that he wrote it. Since I do not have permission to reprint it in its...
by Didact | Apr 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
The latest Honest Trailer is all about STAR WARS: The Force Awakens- and aside from being very, very funny, simply proves that I was correct in every single way when I ripped that movie to shreds for being a colossal waste of time and celluloid. No two ways about it-...
by Didact | Mar 29, 2016 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
Yeah. Totally equal in terms of achievements. The world’s greatest tennis player at the moment- who is increasingly becoming a real threat to Roger Federer’s peerless status as the “Greatest Of All Time”- recently made some quite innocuous...
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 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
If you have not read it already, Vox Day’s superb book, SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police is one that you need to get your hands on right now and read. Vox wrote it to give ordinary folks like you and me a fighting chance when standing up...
by Didact | Mar 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
As if we needed any more evidence, it would appear that the generation after mine is well, truly, and totally F***ED UP BEYOND ALL RECOVERY: Fifty-six percent of respondents from the so-called Gen-Z “said they know someone who went by gender neutral pronouns such as...
by Didact | Mar 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Nobody wanted this. Nobody needed this. Just about everyone who saw the trailer HATED it. So why is Sony doing something as galactically stupid as making an all-female remake/reboot/whatever of “Ghostbusters”? Oh, right. Because vaginas. Great marketing...
by Didact | Mar 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
(Yeah, I know, the video quality is shite. Sorry.) All I can say is that I totally called this one: I never expected #idiocracy to become a documentary. — Etan Cohen (@etanjc) February 24, 2016 Well, with all due respect, Mr. Cohen, this is what I had to say on the...
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