by Didact | Feb 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Let’s conduct a thought experiment for a moment. Suppose you were to take the best riffs and lyrics and themes from great old-school 80s metal and hard-rock bands like: IRON MAIDEN JUDAS PRIEST W.A.S.P. MOTORHEAD SURVIVOR HELLOWEEN ACCEPT SAXON JOURNEY MANOWAR...
by Didact | Feb 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
As I indicated in my review of A Desert Called Peace, Tom Kratman’s Carrera series is NOT for the liberal-minded. The original book contained no small amount of material seemingly written with the express intent of seeing how quickly a “liblepr” head...
by Didact | Jan 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
The venerable Halfbreed had a question regarding my post on marriage: What are your thoughts on plural marriage? You know, sister wives?Let’s get the doctrinaire stuff out of the way right now: for reasons moral, economic, spiritual, and practical, I am...
by Didact | Jan 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
Aside from the rather grating grammatical error that Hiddles makes somewhere in the middle (“obsessed by power”??? Where did the idiot who wrote that line of dialogue learn to speak English?), this is without question one of the funniest and best ads...
by Didact | Jan 31, 2014 | gym idiots, Uncategorized
HOW TO LIFT 101 STEP 1: Hail the Lord of Steel! STEP 2: Warm up LIKE A BOSS STEP 3: Adjust your gear so that you don’t look like a complete tool: How, and when, NOT to wear a belt YOU MAY NOW ENTER THE SHRINE. Services held at least three times a week....
by Didact | Jan 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Uh… it does? As mentioned in my review of David P. Goldman’s book, How Civilisations Die (and Why Islam is Dying Too), the author, better known as the online conservative columnist Spengler, peppered that same book with a series of thought-provoking...
by Didact | Jan 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Not too long ago I wrote a post about free trade and I mentioned something in passing that I think needs some elaboration. I stated that India followed openly socialistic policies designed to produce self-sufficiency in most basic goods and services from the time of...
by Didact | Jan 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Greg Bear is an author with whom most sci-fi readers will be quite familiar. He is widely and highly regarded as one of the finest minds writing modern science fiction, and is noted for his imagination as well as his grasp of actual hard science. For my part,...
by Didact | Jan 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Greg Bear is one of those odd sci-fi authors whose work is at once very accessible and very dense. It’s difficult to explain this unless you’ve actually read one of his books. I have read several, and I have found his books to be of decidedly varying...
by Didact | Jan 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Need for Monogamous Marriage Reading through the reams of literature out there about the dangers and downsides of marriage, one is tempted to come to the conclusion that in the modern world, there is no such thing as a good reason to get married. Horror stories...
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