by Didact | Aug 24, 2014 | fitness, gym idiots, Uncategorized
The absolute worst thing about coming back from a vacation is that, for the time that you’re away, your normal training regimen and fitness routine is completely disrupted. Trying to pick it up again is not a pleasant experience. When you’re on vacation,...
by Didact | Aug 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
The first thing that strikes you about Israel when you get off the plane is how green everything is. Taking the bus from Ben Gurion Airport to the place where we were staying, I vividly remember staring out the window in stunned fascination at the...
by Didact | Aug 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
God didn’t pick us because we were weak or would run from danger. We’ve taken murder and sorrow and humiliation for six thousand years and we have kept faith. We have outlived everyone who has tried to destroy us. Can’t you see it, Kitty? … this...
by Didact | Aug 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
For some strange reason no one seems to bother asking exactly why the Islamist fundamentalist loony fruitcakes (yes, I know, quadruple redundancy, I’m on vacation dammit!) of ISIS are insisting on going about murdering and otherwise doing very unpleasant...
by Didact | Aug 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’m off for about 10 days to travel. I’m not telling where I’m going (yet), but suffice to say that this is a trip that I have been wanting to make for quite literally half my life. Pictures, stories, and tales of wine and song to follow when I get...
by Didact | Aug 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
A (male) writer for the Telly is somewhat perplexed as to why he couldn’t do the “gentlemanly” thing and step in during an altercation between a large man and a small woman: The man wouldn’t let her get away. As she grew visibly more distressed, his...
by Didact | Aug 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Repeatedly, thoroughly, and regardless of sex: When Sarah West was appointed the first female commander of a major Royal Navy Warship, she talked about the toll life on the sea had taken on her personal relationships. “There are drawbacks,” she said as she took charge...
by Didact | Aug 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
President Jackass proves that he, and his idiotic multiculturalist agenda, is every bit as dysfunctional as his critics have been claiming for years: Take a White House state dinner and multiply it by 50. The result is the most elaborate and unusual dinner of...
by Didact | Aug 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Vox- who got this from Heartiste, who in turn got it from… well, somewhere- here is a video that, in a sensible world, would serve as a rallying cry across this country to the youngsters of today: As Vox pointed out in both of his blogs, this video is a sort...
by Didact | Aug 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Vox Day had some rather trenchant things to say about the H-1B “worker visa” programme yesterday, on the back of an interesting article that pointed out that companies are now using the H-1B system to force domestic IT workers to train their foreign...
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