by Didact | Apr 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
A former blonde “bombshell” projects her own insecurities on married couples: She has romanced some of the world’s most sought-after men, from Matt Dillon to Justin Timberlake, but none has been able to tame her [Didact: I’m already seeing a...
by Didact | Apr 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
This is how you resist unwarranted aggression and overbearing intrusions from the Federal government: Citing safety concerns, federal agents are withdrawing from the Nevada cattle ranch where they had engaged in a week-long showdown with Cliven Bundy, a...
by Didact | Apr 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Seeing as it’s been a couple of months since I last bothered posting a proper review about something, I figured it’s high time I fixed that little problem and got on with writing about some of the books and good music that I’ve enjoyed recently. Col....
by Didact | Apr 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
[This post might take its name from one of the greatest and most important death metal albums ever produced, but it has no overarching theme or specific purpose. It’s just a catalog of thoughts and ideas stemming from a recent trip.] The Healing Road I love...
by Didact | Apr 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
There was an article over at RoK a while back talking about how it is small-minded and venal to root for a beautiful but bitchy woman to get her comeuppance in the form of “hitting the wall”: In today’s world, The Wall can generally be summed up as the...
by Didact | Apr 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Telly columnist with the nose of a proboscis monkey is back, with yet another idiotic bit of feminist pseudo-outrage: Private gentlemen’s clubs are known for being exactly that: private and full of gentlemen. The whole concept is very 19th century – which is when...
by Didact | Apr 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
“… so we’ll make it easier specifically to attract more women to it! What a brain wave!” Yes, we know there aren’t enough women in tech. [Didact: According to what metric, exactly? Other than the author’s ridiculous view that men and...
by Didact | Apr 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you’re annoyed enough by this whole Brandon Eich situation, you might consider switching away from Mozilla-provided web browsers completely, and start using Mozilla-based, but independently developed, browsers instead. Here is a small shortlist of some that...
by Didact | Apr 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Oh great, yet another snarky left-wing comic “genius” to replace the one that’s retiring: Colbert’s contract with Comedy Central, where he hosts The Colbert Report, runs through the end of 2014, the website notes, which would leave an opening...
by Didact | Apr 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
So Mozilla CEO Brendon Eich stepped down this week because of internal backlash over his political contributions to a group that supported a state-level ban on gay marriage: The decision to remove the man who invented the web scripting language JavaScipt did not sit...
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