by Didact | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
VDH looks into his normally spotless crystal ball and sees a silver lining: There are reasons for pessimism about the world in general and America in particular, which is more divided politically than at any period since the turbulent 1960s—torn apart by fresh...
by Didact | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
The reality of Islam is that it is a political ideology first and a religion second. When you remove the political component of Islam, and de-fang its core ideology of expansion through warfare, Islam becomes pretty much harmless, exactly as Islamophile and...
by Didact | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
As one of the world’s most open economies is beginning to discover: Singapore may well serve as a case study for what happens when leaders try to offset slowing economic growth with immigration and increased birth rates. There are lessons that Japan or Italy...
by Didact | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Let’s get one thing straight. IRON MAIDEN is the greatest band of all time. End of discussion. There is NO argument permitted, at all, ever, on this subject. With that in mind, here is a selection of the most eminently headbangable MAIDEN songs- and believe me,...
by Didact | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Power metal is a much-maligned sub-genre of heavy metal; it’s known for being ridiculously over-the-top, full of swords-and-sorcery themes, and cheesier than a Swiss fondue. This is unfortunate, because the progenitors of the genre are true innovators, legends...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Happy long weekend- thank the Lord for otherwise pointless holidays like President’s Day. Vox Day on the Dorner fiasco and its implications for what little is left of due process Vox Day on the Alpha-approved appropriate response to Valentine’s Day Matt...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
As noted previously, I read Matthew Bracken’s first foray into dramatic fiction with some interest, and found his first book to be full of interesting ideas but flawed in its execution. I picked up his second book expecting rather more of the same, but was quite...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
(Note: This post was written in two parts with about 9 hours of extremely necessary sleep in between them, so if it seems a little disjointed or the publication time doesn’t jive with events described, it’s not your imagination.) God’s Teeth, but I...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Just got back from a day-long basic handgun course. It’s colder than a witch’s tit outside, and it’s actually going to get worse (somehow) over the next couple of days, so I figure I might as well blog while my brain is still defrosted. Taking...
by Didact | Feb 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Charlie Bushmeister from The Single Dude’s Guide took a trip to London and was rather underwhelmed: On my last trip to London I had a small apartment off of Brick Lane, in the Shoreditch neighborhood, which is Ground Zero for London hipsterism. Arriving by...
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