“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.”

Girls, kayaks, and rapids galore

If you are looking for an entertaining “coming-of-age” story with plenty of crazy adventures, implausible characters, hot bitchy women, and gripping stories of what it means to take a flimsy little raft straight into the teeth of some of the scariest...

The real Modern Man List

Remember that ridiculous list that New York Times “journalist” Brian Lombardi wrote up back in October? The one where he appeared to be suffering from acute vaginal cramping, and ended up claiming that the mark of a real man is his possession of a F!@#ING...

Poor kid

To steal a quote from our good friend the Captain, “we don’t need to stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiking fathers!”: Spurred on by the profound regret of an older friend who’d searched high and low for the perfect father only to run out of time, I decided to...

The Didact’s Top 10 Posts of 2015

Not surprisingly, this assclown’s face is among the top image search results for “narcissism” Yes, I know, this is navel-gazing of the worst kind. Fortunately I only get one chance a year to do it. The list below is in descending order, and is...

Are they sponsored?

That is the real question that everyone should be asking of these Instagram “models”- who by the way nobody else has ever heard of- that are (apparently) raking in millions of dollars a year from their income making faces and looking hot in very tight...

STAR WARS VII: A Lost Hope

The family went out last night to watch STAR WARS VII: The Force Awakens. Now as I’ve said before (far too many times), I really wasn’t looking forward to seeing this new movie; I figured that J. J. Abrams had simply turned it into another pastiche of the...

If by Rudyard Kipling

Given the title of the poem, here’s one “if” that I hope to see come to pass in my time: If I ever have a son, I’m going to buy him the complete works of Kipling, for him to go through as he grows into manhood. He will get a better education...

A few facts went a-missing

An interesting article over at Return of Kings the other day posited that Russia is becoming a rather good place for modern “unplugged” men to go, in order that they might expand their horizons: A man who (wisely) chooses to leave the Western world today...

Karma really is a bitch

Especially if “Karma” happens to be the name of that Manic Pixie Dream Girl type in the corner cubicle at work who absolutely will get your ass fired if you say the wrong thing to her. What would be “the wrong thing”? Open your mouth to...

Open mouth, change feet

“Why yes, I AM as big a jackass as I look right now” There has been quite a lot of sturm und drang released on teh interwebz recently about the comments made by one Nick Kyrgios during a tennis match in Canada against French Open champion Stanislas...