March 2010

Remember to seize the day

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.31.2010

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to [...]

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Sarah Palin and the tragedy of the Tea Party Movement

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.31.2010

This past weekend, Sarah Palin, who is rapidly becoming the queen of the Tea Party Movement, endorsed John McCain for re-election to the Senate over his Tea Party-backed challenger. Let me re-state that – a politician popular among a certain ideological movement is backing a candidate for office that stands in opposition to everything that [...]

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Mass Effect 2 and the silent evolution of video games

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.29.2010

Like every red-blooded male born after the year 1975, I play video games. Unlike most red-blooded males born after the year 1975, who play games on overpriced little boxes with cheap pieces of plastic with buttons and joysticks, I’ve stuck with my keyboard and mouse.  The first and only console I’ve ever owned is the [...]

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Linkage is Good for You: Sloth Edition

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.28.2010

Max – “One Day as a Lion” Chuck Ross – “Booze Benefits Betas“, “I’m Not Getting Any Fucking Health Insurance“, “Male Collusion for Women is a Pipe Dream” Female Misogynist – “Well, Well, Well.” Jay Hammers – “A Chat Room for Men’s Rights Discussion” Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Tech – “No Brainwashing Involved” J. Durden – “Being a [...]

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How to wage war

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.26.2010

A couple of days ago, Max wrote a post on fighting inspired by an article I’d linked to on knife fighting earlier in the week. The thrust of both is that every Hollywood tough-guy fantasy you have about fighting is not only dead wrong, it could get you killed. From Max’s post: Fighting contains so [...]

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Gamers: manginas extraordinaire

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.24.2010

I report on a new service that charges men to play video games with girls at The Spearhead. An excerpt: “PlayDates” is quite appropriate, since the dorks who sign up for GameCrush are basically paying women like prostitutes, but without the sex. It’s like phone sex but just as pricey and only half as retarded. [...]

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Obamacare, noblesse oblige, and the sundering of the social contract

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.22.2010

“The finall Cause, End, or Designe of men, (who naturally love Liberty, and Dominion over others,) in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves, (in which wee see them live in Common-wealths,) is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby; that is to say, of getting themselves out from [...]

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Linkage is Good for You: More Vintage Sensuality Edition

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.21.2010

This is my first post made with the Status Updater plugin, installed at Brett Stevens’ suggestion, motivated in part to get him to stop whining. Those of you who’ve friended me on Facebook (and if you haven’t, REDEEM YOURSELF) should be able to Share my blog posts now. In Mala Fide – achieving world domination, [...]

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Infidelity and prole drift

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.19.2010

A question to the men in the audience – would you cheat on this: …with this? Michelle is somewhat attractive, I’ll admit, but the hideous tattoos are a deal-breaker. I’m retching a little just looking at her. And yet Jesse James was able to bang this slag on the sly for nearly a year straight. [...]

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“Why would a man who’s famous and makes tons of money use that to try and have sex with lots of different women?”

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.18.2010

As usual, the best social commentary on TV comes from South Park. Watch the latest episode, on the fraud of “sex addiction,” NOW. I was laughing my ass off all the way through. Ugly Americans wasn’t too bad either – it reminds me of Superjail, except it’s actually funny.

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Your St. Paddy’s Day reading assignment

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.17.2010

Apropos of Ireland’s recent economic collapse, The eXiled has published a long but interesting piece on the political and cultural factors that transformed the Irish from heroes to zeroes in two seconds flat: For the rich boozing isn’t the escape it is for the poor. Instead it’s a Bacchic dance of transgression. The elites in [...]

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The death rattle of the Luddites

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.16.2010

If you were hoping that people would be willing to pay for online news, thus saving the journalism industry from certain extinction, you might as well kill yourself right now: NEW YORK — Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be “like trying to force butterflies back into their cocoons,” a [...]

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Banned!

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.15.2010

Professor Hale reports: Ferdinand at In Mala Fide and The Hawaiian Libertarian are now in the club. The club of “being blocked at work” because the work web screening mechanism thinks that they are “porn” sites. Really? I could understand this blog being considered pornographic by the standards of an incredibly strict Christian group, what with all [...]

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Linkage is Good for You: Filchery Edition

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.14.2010

  If there’s one rule I never break, it’s this: never steal another man’s woman. But when I saw this entrancing lady over at Bob Belvedere’s place, I knew I had to have her. My sincerest apologies. (Speaking of which, Mr. Belvedere has the best collection of vintage Rule 5 pinups in the Stacyosphere. Fo’ sho’.) [...]

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The rules of the game vs. the rules of the court

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.12.2010

Via Susan Walsh, I found this ongoing series at the Village Voice where freshly-dumped NYU senior Jesse VanDusen tests out the game advice of a PUA instructor versus the advice laid out in Baldassare Castiglione’s Renaissance-era tome on being the perfect courtier, The Book of the Courtier. It’s quite interesting, especially this part: Richard Horwich, a [...]

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Racial stereotypes reaffirmed, again

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.10.2010

Off the top of your head, tell me quick which racial group is stereotyped as being hypersexual and libidinous. Chances are, this study will confirm your prejudices: White people report having less sex than members of other races, according to a study released Monday on ethnicity and sleeping habits in America. However, they don’t have [...]

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The sexiest poem ever written – by a preacher, no less

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.10.2010

Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed by John Donne Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy, Until I labor, I in labor lie. The foe oft-times having the foe in sight, Is tired with standing though he never fight. Off with that girdle, like heaven’s zone glistering, But a far fairer world [...]

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A question for anyone who knows WordPress better than I do

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.09.2010

Are there any related posts plugins for WordPress out there that are efficient and use a small amount of resources? I ask because DreamHost emailed me earlier to inform me that the now-disabled Yet Another Related Posts Plugin was, combined with the popularity of my site, blowing out their MySQL server. If I can’t find [...]

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With friends like the American right, the European right doesn’t need enemies

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.09.2010

Thanks a lot Glenn, you addle-brained asshole. Bad enough that you’re a frothing-at-the-mouth maniac, but now you’re sinking a blade in the back of one of the few successful and principled conservative politicians in the West? Richard Hoste takes the words out of my mouth: My biggest nightmare: Europe awakens and then the US attacks [...]

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“Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?”

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.08.2010

I heard this on Rush Limbaugh’s show during my lunch break and couldn’t stop laughing. Here is Eric Massa, former representative from New York’s 29th congressional district, describing his gym shower encounter with Rahm Emanuel: Bahahahaha! Don’t know much about Massa, other than the fact that he represents the Southern Tier, the armpit of New [...]

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We have TRIUMPHED!

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.07.2010

  As of 10:12 pm EST, In Mala Fide is now the number 8 hit on Google for “vajazzle“: I’m also the number 13 hit for “vajazzled“: Click on the pics to see them in their full glory. I’m also number 7 for “vajazzle” on Google UK, Canada, and France, number 8 on Google Ireland, [...]

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Linkage is Good for You: Premature Congratulations Edition

by Ferdinand Bardamu 03.07.2010

  As of this writing (Saturday afternoon), In Mala Fide is on Google Page 9 for “vajazzled” and Page 11 for “vajazzle.” I didn’t even rank before, so our efforts are not for naught. Because I’ll be out of the house for the rest of the night (and will likely be incapacitated for a good chunk [...]

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