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Domain Query: If the bar ain’t bendin’…
LRFotS Robert W is in the market for a new barbell (that's his kid in the picture, by the way - joking), and asked for some opinions on the subject in a comment on a post from a few days ago, when I...
Solving the Manosphere’s grifter problem
Right before we finally killed off 2021 (thank God for that), I wrote up a post about an odd character that nobody around here had ever heard of, named Jack Murphy. The reason why he made headlines...
Do not be a hypocrite
A number of controversies have erupted within the loose conglomeration of writers and content creators within "The Manosphere" over the past few months, and they have become severe enough that they...
How to be resilient
It's been a while since I did a decent write-up for The Agoge, and I figure that we're long overdue for a post in that section. In particular, I want to come back to a subject that I've addressed...
The Sigma bro
As you can see from the near-complete lack of activity, it has been a very, very busy week for me. But that has not quite stopped me from checking out amusingly stupid things on TEH YOOTOOBZ from...
Lessons of War, Pt. 2: The Beast in the East
In my previous post on this subject, I talked about how and why a war between the USA and China, sparked by the Chinese invasion of Taiwan, would end in disaster for the US and destroy its hegemony....
Lessons of War, Pt. 1: Red Storm Rising
Given the sabre-rattling going on in the South and especially East China Sea right now, it is worth asking whether the American military and its regional allies can do anything whatsoever to win a...
The wisdom of an elder statesman
Anyone who has ever visited Singapore knows that it is a truly amazing place - which, by rights, shouldn't exist. It is an island basically without resources which is essentially just "a pimple on...
The dyslexic voice of Dog
That moniker is actually something that Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of THE GREATEST F***ING BAND OF ALL TIME, aka IRON MAIDEN, once put in the liner notes of his supremely awesome solo album, The...
Christian Nationalism is the solution
Our good friend Dawn Pine sent me a video a couple of weeks ago in which Richard Grannon breaks down a video about the Marxist strategy to break the West by attacking the culture. It is well worth...
Ten years of the Iron Mind
In June of 2011, I did two things that would change the course of my life forever. First, I moved out of my rather cosy, but quite expensive, apartment in Big Shitty, and moved across the river to...
Guest Post: Lessons Learned from Erich Fromm by The Male Brain
I am very pleased to present another guest post from our good friend, Dawn Pine, aka The Male Brain, over in Israel. This week's post is a longer, thoughtful piece on The Art of Loving by Erich...