by Didact | Aug 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
I started reading a book called Corporateland: Surviving Cubicle Warfare by everyone’s favourite asshole uncle – no, not Terrence Popp, though he will always get a salute from this blog for his good work – Frank Cervi. On the very first page is...
by Didact | Aug 12, 2019 | Mondays, Uncategorized
Mother of God, it’s Monday again. Please, please can we be done with it already?!? Of course, if your name started with “J”, and ended with “effrey Epstein”, then you aren’t around to greet this particular Monday –...
by Didact | Aug 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell yesterday, as you all know by now. Evidently he committed suicide, probably because he couldn’t bear the weight of his crimes. And if you believe one single word of that last sentence, I...
by Didact | Aug 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Longtime reader and friend of the blog Dire Badger had a very good musical recommendation to add to my epic Monday linkage and videos post, in the form of a new musical project called THE HU. Now, as far as I can tell, this is not a pun based on the name of one of the...
by Didact | Aug 9, 2019 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
It’s Friday again, boys, and you know what that means: guns, girls, and glory, more or less in that order, ascending. As for the “guns” part, well, that is likely to become ever more difficult thanks to the two angry young men who killed nearly 30...
by Didact | Aug 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Right’s blogging and media arms have been blowing up over recent videos posted by citizen activists and real journalists like Andy Ngo – yep, the very same libertarian-ish Asian gay guy from the true new media outlet Quillette who was assaulted by...
by Didact | Aug 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
The question of whether or not to use the death penalty to punish truly evil criminals used to be a non-starter. You can go back over 10,000 years in history, and you will find that, all the way up until about the 20th Century, the death penalty was considered a...
by Didact | Aug 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Being outside of the USA means that the news cycle with respect to mass shootings tends to be quite a bit slower than it is Stateside, so I saw the news about the two deadly shootings in El Paso and Dayton rather a bit later than most of my readers did. Nonetheless,...
by Didact | Aug 5, 2019 | Mondays, Uncategorized
Mondays are a waste of time, space, energy, and of course human happiness. Fortunately, while there is nothing much that we can do about the inevitable passage and decay of time, we can try to put ourselves in a better frame of mind. Now, I don’t know about...
by Didact | Aug 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Is it possible to abolish war by relieving population pressure (and thus do away with the all-too-evident evils of war) through constructing a moral code under which population is limited to resources? Without debating the usefulness or morality of planned parenthood,...
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