Looked at from a conventional perspective, life is a tough, competitive struggle. In areas where everyone is engaged and fighting hard the bar is often set impressively high. There can be great rewards, but a man will be up against the best, and there are some amazing people out there. The worlds of work, sports, business, investment, and sex are inhabited by hordes of steely-eyed men who will take everything and won't give an inch. Other areas offer opportunities for gathering low hanging fruit. Frequently the majority show little interest, or their success is about individual action rather than direct competition. Read More

Occam's razor is most commonly described as “the simplest answer is most often correct,” although this is an oversimplification. But life is too short to complicate it. Even though this rationalization may lead to faulty conclusions at times, more often than not it's going to lead to the right solution. (from explorable.com) Q: How can you tell if she's just a tease or she's looking for something?A: Escalate and move it forward. Q: How can you tell if she's really interested in you?A: Try and kiss her, you'll have your answer. Weed out the time wasters and attention whores. Q: How can you Read More

SJWs are simply relentless. It seems as if they don't sleep or rest at all, but merely dedicate their whole lives to finding new ways to attack, shame and blame everything that can serve as an expression of masculinity. While GamerGate has seen a rich collection of magnificent SJW fails, their renewed effort to stifle violent games has found another victim. This time around, the waves of SJW moral outrage that resulted in the removal of GTA 5 from Target Australia shelves have now hit Hatred, a mass-murder simulator. Their complaints have caused Steam to ban it from its service. Evil white Read More

Like many men in my generation, I have a father who has consistently failed at life. His unsolicited advice is usually worthless dribble aimed at justifying his own terrible choices. Two days before I left for law school this summer, he told me, “Blair, you don't have the social temperament to succeed in the legal field.” For once he was absolutely right, and I pulled out in late October. It was one of the top five best decisions I will ever make. Social Skills Of course he meant that as a pejorative, since I am a mean son of a bitch, but Read More

Prince of Thorns I read somewhere that The Broken Empire series by Mark Lawrence is better than Game of Thrones. Claims like this should not be thrown around lightly. But after reading just the first two chapters of the first novel in the series, Prince of Thorns, it became evident that Lawrence had at least beat Game of Thrones in the brutality award categories, firmly sticking George RR Martin's head on a pike. A promising novel—I plan to finish it by the time this is published. As Lawrence claims in his recent blog post about reaching 30,000 reviews on Goodreads, he received Read More