by Didact | Dec 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Nov 29, 2015 | Kipling, Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Oct 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Oct 2, 2015 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Aug 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
“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...
by Didact | Jul 25, 2015 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
This picture will be immediately familiar to you if you have ever purchased a box of cereal. It is, as I surely need not tell you, the ubiquitous US Department of Agriculture’s Food Pyramid. It summarises in a handy-dandy family-friendly graphic what our...
by Didact | Jul 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
If you have not yet read Jonathan Gotschall’s excellent book, The Professor in the Cage, I cannot recommend it highly enough. I finished it a few days ago, and I’m very pleased to say that I have finally found a book that clearly articulates exactly why it...
by Didact | May 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
My Jargon is Better Than Yours! Anyone who has dipped a toe or three into the Androsphere and its accumulated wisdom will be instantly familiar with the terms Alpha, Beta, and Omega. These words are used to define a sexual, and in certain cases a socio-sexual,...
by Didact | May 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
The GOP’s 2016 electoral strategy George W. “Compassionate Conservative” Bush’s brother apparently seems to think that having yet another progressive Republican cast in the mould of Theodore Roosevelt and John McCain leading the US would be a...
by Didact | Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Cultural insensitivity can be hilariously awesome AM sent over an interesting link to a Cracked.com article last night that talked about five unpleasant realities of visiting India as a young Western woman. It is worth reading through all the way, if only to get an...
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