by Didact | Sep 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
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by Didact | Aug 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
Most people would be pleased about upgrading from economy to business class on a flight. But when you’re the greatest band of all time, “upgrading” your mode of transportation takes on a completely different, and vastly more awesome, meaning: British...
by Didact | Aug 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
And I do mean past: This was a trip down memory lane for me. I grew up watching these videos- must have seen them a hundred times as a little kid in Southeast Asia, back in the days of VHS. I think my parents got me started on the books when I were a very wee...
by Didact | Aug 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Prince LaQroix was rather surprised by the not-very-nice things I had to say about President Abraham Lincoln in yesterday’s post about the IQs of the occupants of the Oval Office: Abraham Lincoln as the worst president? That’s a new one to me. It’s...
by Didact | Aug 28, 2015 | Kipling, Uncategorized
A man with a moustache like that is not to be trifled with I was introduced to this magnificent poem by (who else?) Bill Whittle, whose video on the subject is appended below, and which will probably give you the chills just like it did to me. But first, here is a...
by Didact | Aug 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Back when George W. Bush was elected President, an email hoax was circulated reporting that President Bush had the lowest IQ of any occupant of the Oval Office in the entire history of the nation, and that President Clinton had, by far, the highest ever recorded....
by Didact | Aug 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
The folly of unlimited immigration becomes more transparent by the day: The overwhelming majority of immigration to the United States is the result of our visa policies. Each year, millions of visas are issued to temporary workers, foreign students, refugees, asylees,...
by Didact | Aug 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
A little over 4 months ago, I wrote a somewhat grumpy response to one Radhika Sangani’s Bonobo Nose’s sentiments about the very sad and untimely demise of THE GREATEST TV SHOW OF ALL TIME, also known as Top Gear. In that response, I noted on a bit of...
by Didact | Aug 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
During l’affair de Gallo a few months back, I posted a write-up in which I argued, among other things, that a boycott of Tor Books and Tor Online is not only permissible, but perfectly justified, in light of certain, shall we say, injudicious...
by Didact | Aug 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Now THIS is a speech that I really wish university students would hear on graduation day: Back when my sister graduated from university last May, I wrote up the speech that I wished someone would have given that hot and sunny early summer morning. I thought I’d...
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