by Didact | Sep 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
I realise that I’m borrowing rather liberally from the socio-sexual hierarchy that Vox (rightly) claims as his invention, but it applies well to this Daily Mail article, which is an excerpt from an upcoming biography of an artist named Lucian Freud: So how did...
by Didact | Sep 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Hot on the heels of recent news that two freedom-hating politicians in Colorado were recalled by a thoroughly pissed-off electorate, we now have news that Chicago- one of the most unfriendly places in the country when it comes to free exercise of the 2nd Amendment-...
by Didact | Sep 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was going to post about this Daily Mail article pretty much as soon as I read it, but naturally Vox, since he is both much smarter than me and blessed with far greater amounts of blogging time than I am, beat me to the punch. Sneaky bastard… Anyway, I’m...
by Didact | Sep 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Molotov Mitchell from World Net Daily recently acquired one of the most difficult qualifications in the world- a black belt in Krav Maga: Congratulations to him. Those who practice Krav Maga know only too well just how hard it is to get to that level- hell, yellow...
by Didact | Sep 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
“… we might have kinda sorta maybe goofed a little…”: The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year. More than 20 yachts that had planned to sail it have been left ice-bound and a cruise ship...
by Didact | Sep 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
… should have been a retro movie, not bloody real life: The United States’ National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers. Top secret NSA documents that...
by Didact | Sep 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
You can’t really call yourself a big fan of sci-fi until and unless you have read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. During his lifetime, Asimov wrote 7 books in the series, starting with the original Foundation and continuing on through to...
by Didact | Sep 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
pumpsix has a question on one of my favourite subjects- books: Just wondering, can you recommend a book on the economic battles between USA and USSR? (Also, off topic, do you know of any good books on economic history? I have New Ideas from Dead Economists and The...
by Didact | Sep 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
We were having a bit of fun the other day at work during our end-of-day runs, skimming around politics for a little while as things chugged along, when somehow the conversation got around to what I would do if I were “put in charge of things”. I...
by Didact | Sep 5, 2013 | Christianity, Uncategorized
[Damn religious holidays… If it weren’t for the fact that Rosh Hashanah is today (and I didn’t know it), I could have reached out and punched someone at a Krav Maga class. Instead here I am writing a blog post… Oh well. If you happen to be...
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