by Didact | Feb 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Some of you – well, two of you – might remember how, exactly a year ago, I spitballed a completely loony idea and took a straw poll to see if anyone might be interested. What you see below is the Foreword for that very same crazy idea. Oh yes. A...
by Didact | Feb 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
This, right here, is why everyone hates lawyers: Longtime TOP GEAR fans know exactly what spawned this clip, by the way. Back in the day, Jezza & Co. gave the Tesla Model S Roadster a rather poor review – if you look hard enough you can find that...
by Didact | Feb 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Peter Hitchens of the Daily Mail – one of the few columnists for that rag that has his head screwed on right, most of the time, and brother of the late irrational atheist Christopher – had some rather choice words for the #MeToo harpies back in...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2018 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
Ah, Friday. The day that we all walk out of work a bit early, hopefully with a spring in our step, and look forward to unwinding a bit after a hard week of, basically, “dicking about” in an office working for some overemotional Poindexter who...
by Didact | Feb 16, 2018 | Christianity, Uncategorized
Toward the end of last year, Castalia House released a rather odd-looking book that was apparently a “spiritual prequel” of sorts to something called The Stars Came Back. Now, I had seen Rolf Nelson’s name while bumbling about on Amazon looking for...
by Didact | Feb 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
This golden retriever could teach us all a thing or two about getting them straight: I have to say, I’m impressed. And it’s not just because I have a great personal fondness for big fluffy dogs in general, and golden retrievers in particular. That dog is...
by Didact | Feb 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
That picture above was taken at the wedding of a chap named Doug Hutchison, aged 51 at the time, to 16-year-old girl named Courtney Stodden. Now, at the time, Mr. Hutchison was absolutely destroyed by the media in the court of public opinion. He was labeled...
by Didact | Feb 12, 2018 | Kipling, Uncategorized
“There’s no sense in going further — it’s the edge of cultivation,” So they said, and I believed it — broke my land and sowed my crop — Built my barns and strung my fences in the little border station Tucked away below the...
by Didact | Feb 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
The very last episode of TOP GEAR’s Series 20 – y’know, from back when the show was really really good because it was still hosted by Clarkson, Hammond, and May – featured a truly beautiful and epic tribute to British manufacturing, which...
by Didact | Feb 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ladies (and gents, too) – do you want to know what the biggest problem is with feminism? Yes, I know, the natural response to this would be, “EVERYTHING – next question”. Another valid response would be, “Blimey, where do we even...
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