The Dastardly Dispatches

The only time we don't spit in the face of convenience
In general, something we spit in the face of round here is convenience.Mostly, because anything that is "manly" is inherently inconvenient.Lifting iron isn't convenient.Getting beat up in the boxing ring isn't convenient.And lifting 500kg steel pots while being exposed to...
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The bronze monster that ended an empire
1452.Two empires are vying for control of the Mediterranean.The Byzantines - a relic of the Roman Empire, who controlled the Bosporus from their capital Constantinople.And the Ottomans, of Sulieman the Magnificent lore.In the middle: a Hungarian siege engineer named Orban,...
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The "dad advice" making prince & princesses cry
Last month, Jordan Peterson was banned on Twitter....We don’t know why, exactly.Presumably, for daring to challenge the woke powers that be.Personally, we don't get what he's ever said that's so offensive.All he’s guilty of in our books is - as...
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The dimwitted disease of self-esteem
Scurvy. Rickets. Smallpox.Many a disease that plagued pirates of old.And while most have disappeared, from the crow's nest we spy a new one rearing its selfie-framed head on the horizon:The disease of self-esteem.The plague that turned us into a world...
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