LFM on Teaching the Child to Swear Well

| May 17, 2013

Profanity is not a true language, in and of itself. Rather, like a seasoning, it must be infused into language to enhance the message. Wielded well, and with proper timing, it approaches the potency of punctuation in clarifying intention and exorcising ambiguity. I believe most current Parenting doctrine wrongly eschews the Communicative Art inherent in […]

Worldly Wisdom Wednesday – Bear Necessities

| May 15, 2013

The Way of the Wild deals with Life, Death, who gets each, and when. For successful organisms, embracing this Way is not a choice, and of all things on the Earth, only one kind flirts with living as though this were not so – Man. For the most part, human society does not embrace Wild […]

The Trying, the Failing, and the Doing

| May 11, 2013

Few things are more weakening to a culture than raising its children to believe that “trying your best” and failing can ever mark the end of accomplishment. Teaching that failure is a black mark on your soul. That it’s always best to play safe in all things. Bullshit. If you’re worth knowing, you’ve fallen off […]

The Tempest Has Left the Teapot

| May 4, 2013

Further to the outage warning we posted day before yesterday, as of last night, all our websites have been migrated to the new server. Allegedly, this should put paid to those pesky slowdowns and blackouts of recent history – a claim made more credible by the fact that it didn’t come from any government source.

Outage Warning!

| May 2, 2013

In the past few weeks, our web host has been experiencing progressively more frequent, and lengthy, down times on the server that handles the website and e-mail not only for Large Fierce Mammal, but also Whynacht Security & Survival and Golden Mountain Dog Solutions. This has reached a point where it’s interfering with the stately […]

Worldly Wisdom Wednesday – Waste Not Your Labours

| May 1, 2013

Training – Perfection – Practice – Training – Perfection …. By LFM “Practice makes perfect,” is what people say, But few things are further from true. It misses the fact that what’s perfect in me Is quite different from perfect in you. In fact, TRAINING’S the thing that will build up our skills, And hone […]

Worldly Wisdom Wednesday – Stop Trying to Blur the Definition of “Local”

| April 3, 2013

I first learned about GlobeIn from this article posted last Saturday to George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. I’ll start with letting GlobeIn explain themselves in their own words: This is the lamest sales pitch for a fundamentally flawed and self-serving idea I’ve heard in hours. Let’s look at why I feel that way. To begin, you may […]

Worldly Wisdom Wednesday – Beware of Labels

| March 20, 2013

Written words are visual guides to the making of sounds that, when uttered aloud, convey meaning. An example is the word “label”. A label can be a physical object that, when applied to another object, conveys important information about it. What it is, who made it, what it’s made of, how to use it, how […]

Worldly Wisdom Wednesday – Ripples in a Pond

| March 6, 2013

Man is a social animal, and a fundamental departure from the Way of the Wild as it is meant to express itself in Man occurs when the value of individual contribution becomes subjugated to serving the role of cog in the machine. Treated as a mere tool, quick and cheap to create and all too […]

Four Pillars and a Double Standard

| March 3, 2013

A fire breaks out in your kitchen. You have and are permitted to own a fire extinguisher that is more than adequate to stop the blaze, but prohibited from using it in favour of running away to let the Fire Department handle the situation. An hour later, your house is rubble, and both your wheel […]