by Didact | Apr 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s hard to believe that this really needs to be said, but apparently it does- short hair does NOT make a woman appeal to a man: Victoria’s Secret has finally embraced Karlie Kloss’ chin-grazing hair – but the lingerie giant’s fans...
by Didact | Apr 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yes, I know, I’m very late to this one- what can I say, I’ve been busy: Lady Thatcher’s children Mark and Carol said their mother, who suffered bouts of ill health in recent years, died peacefully after suffering a stroke at the age of 87. She died...
by Didact | Apr 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
I spent the past few days in London, catching up with some very dear old friends, and attending the wedding of one of those friends. (Hence the total lack of new material over the past week.) My trip back to my old stomping grounds rammed home a few things- the...
by Didact | Apr 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
At some point you really do have to wonder how clever African guerrilla fighters can possibly be if they’re giving loaded assault weapons to chimpanzees. Maybe, just maybe, if the West stopped interfering, the whole lot of them would wipe each other out just...
by Didact | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
George R. R. Martin does his absolute best to convince us that he’s really just a big soft feminist at heart: But Bellafonte’s comments still rankle with Martin a year later because he is, at heart, a feminist, despite being cautious about admitting it....
by Didact | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Every year the Motley Fool puts up an April Fool’s gag, and every year it gets ever more elaborate. This year’s is not quite their best- I thought their mockery of technical analysis a few years ago was much better- but it’s still pretty damn funny:...
by Didact | Mar 31, 2013 | fitness, gym idiots, Uncategorized
Someone out there has done us all a tremendous public service by compiling this truly hilarious collection of gym idiots doing what gym idiots do- making themselves look stupid, and making the rest of us collapse with laughter in the process. Enjoy! Share this: Share...
by Didact | Mar 31, 2013 | Christianity, Uncategorized
Every Easter, Vox Day traditionally posts a quote from Scripture about the miracle of Christ’s Resurrection. This Easter was no different- but then Vox posted his own thoughts on what is, and is not, Christianity. It was, in my opinion, one of his greatest ever...
by Didact | Mar 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
At the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for the angel of the Lord descended from Heaven, and came and rolled back the...
by Didact | Mar 31, 2013 | HALO, Uncategorized
When it was revealed that Greg Bear would be writing a trilogy of HALO books detailing the history and culture of the Forerunner empire, which holds such an enduring place within the canon of the HALO series, I was deeply sceptical. I had tried reading his...
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