by Didact | Oct 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Recently the last season’s episodes for How I Met Your Mother hit Netflix. There was a time in my life where I did watch this show, fairly frequently; I thought it was one of the funnier sitcoms out there. But my views on the roles of men and women in...
by Didact | Oct 6, 2013 | fitness, gym idiots, Uncategorized
That’s the true difference between bodybuilders and powerlifters: This is taken straight from the StrongLifts Facebook page, which I think is publicly accessible (and that’s the only reason why I can get this pic). It illustrates perfectly the difference...
by Didact | Oct 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
And here I thought “Hot For Teacher” was just a really funny and really silly VAN HALEN song that only gets played at strip clubs these days- I didn’t think it would actually happen in real life: A Dallas teacher has generated a buzz around the high...
by Didact | Oct 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
The inimitable Blackdragon posted a piece a while back that, apparently, caused several readers to erupt into frothing rage: Let’s take a Star Trek moment and say a tear in the space-time continuum caused an alternate timeline in which I was born a female instead of a...
by Didact | Sep 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
[I suppose I should have written this about a month ago so that I would get the timing right, but as I’ve noted before, I’m kind of a lazy bastard. I like my couch and I like my afternoon naps on weekends, dammit…] August 22nd, 2006. A young man...
by Didact | Sep 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Danger & Play answered a reader’s question recently about why he doesn’t really post on game anymore; his respectful disagreement was a masterpiece: Think of game like an investment strategy. Ideally we would all have substantial assets that would...
by Didact | Sep 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Steve Sailer posted an interesting except from a book written by a former Lehman Bros. executive regarding the way diversity was forced down the throats of employees at that firm- right around the time that the housing bubble was clearly becoming a huge problem: One...
by Didact | Sep 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was going to post about this Daily Mail article pretty much as soon as I read it, but naturally Vox, since he is both much smarter than me and blessed with far greater amounts of blogging time than I am, beat me to the punch. Sneaky bastard… Anyway, I’m...
by Didact | Sep 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
My Singaporean counterpart had some news from back home that caught my eye: Foreigners coming to a country and demanding legislation be changed to suit their wants and preferences. Now, where have I heard of that before? Oh, right. “I love...
by Didact | Aug 16, 2013 | fitness, Uncategorized
Recent events got me thinking about why so many people have so much trouble getting what they want out of life. I’m sure you’ve seen this plenty of times- and you’re probably guilty of it yourself: someone sets a goal, decides that he wants to do...
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