Peter Grant shows off a recent Dilbert Cartoon at his blog [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2017/07/heh.html], about “toppers.” I used to call them one-upsmen. Everything they had was bigger, better, etc., ad nauseum. The worst example I could think of you couldn’t mention your car, your boat, your fishing rod, your computer, etc.without him going on and on about how much more awesome of one he had. Always back home, never where we could see it. He didn’t make it through a second run u…
I know, I know, he can be slow to get around to a movie, but the Didact finally saw John Wick 2 and despite having his mind blown, enough of it survived to write about it [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2017/07/mind-blown.html]. > There isn’t a single wasted moment in it. There is not one scene that does not bristle with energy and is not stylishly shot. There is not one action sequence that is anything less than jaw-dropping. About the only flaw that I can find in the movie is that maybe th…
Since I just watched Baby Driver. [](https://thelastredoubt.com/content/images/2017/06/Celeber-ru-Lily-James-THR-Magazine-Photoshoot-2015-06-2.jpg) [](https://thelastredoubt.com/content/images/2017/06/eiza-gonzalez-0109-2.png) [
I took the plunge, World’s Endnotwithstanding, and went to see Baby Driver. Short version – if you sat through the trailers and said “hell, yeah” – the movie is exactly what they sold you. Go, watch it.That said, I’m torn. Where once in the past I was more amenable to “stylish” and directly artistic movies, I have much less patience with, say, Tarantino flicks, than I used to be. It’s very overtly and deliberately stylistic, often enough in ways that call themselves to your attention. Yet, I’ve…
A thought I had listening to Jordan Peterson on immigration, of all topics. He mentioned that the left, and post-modernists, and many of the damaged people who comprise those groups don’t believe in borders at all. Not just between countries and cultures but between people. So. It’s been observed that leftists, especially die hard feminists and SJW’s, tend to act not only like rabbits (r/k theory), but more strongly than average exhibit traits associated with cluster-B disorders such as Border…