“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.”

In which I am greatly upset

Our good friend- or should I say, former friend?- Adam Piggott, the Gentleman Adventurer, decided to pull a Marc Antony and bury Caesar instead of praising him (by way of blatantly ripping off borrowing liberally from Don Rickles): Dear friends, dear...

Clear out the trauma unit…

What happens when a manly man of righteous manliness, whose opinions are completely unfair, unbalanced, and unmedicated, takes on a harpy and a banshee in a single interview? Well… this does. Crank up the sound to full surround, grab a beer in one hand...

Yes, they’re ALL “like that”

[T]he secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan, you must learn its discipline. For no one, no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts… This you can trust. — Conan the Barbarian’s...

“The Elites are blind, Arbiter!”

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...

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...