by Didact | Dec 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Courtesy of reader and friend LastRedoubt, I came across a rather amusing article by Nassim Taleb concerning the dangers of the Intellectual Yet Idiot- the acronym for which sounds remarkably similar to a Yiddish expression of annoyance: What we have been seeing...
by Didact | Dec 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
The latest season of my favourite family TV show, Last Man Standing, is currently running. (Hard to believe that it’s been going strong for six years- and is getting better with every passing year.) In one of the newest episodes, the show’s central...
by Didact | Dec 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
The more I see and hear of the likely future Secretary of Defence of the United States of America, the more I like him: “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” – from a speech Mattis delivered to Marines arriving in Iraq in 2003. This...
by Didact | Dec 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
Aside from mixing up Leon Panetta and John Podesta somewhere in there- and, let’s be honest, given the sheer venality, vindictiveness, and the utterly despicable nature of most of the people closely involved with the Clintons, it’s hard to really blame him...
by Didact | Dec 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s time to take a sledgehammer to it by offending everyone we possibly can, TOP GEAR style: I couldn’t stop laughing over the comments about that Mexican car. In case you’re wondering, it’s called the Mastretta MXT, and in TOP GEAR...
by Didact | Nov 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
Steve Hughes is a comedian who, for someone in his line of work, actually has his head screwed on quite tightly. He’s Australian- so he (presumably) understands that meat is murder, tasty, tasty murder; he’s a metalhead- so he has impeccable taste in...
by Didact | Nov 24, 2016 | Christianity, Uncategorized
There is a heart in America — a good, deep, loving, and true heart. It’s always been part of our land, from the time the pilgrims first bowed their heads to thank the Lord for His bounty to this day. You only need eyes to see and ears to hear, for there...
by Didact | Nov 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.– William Tecumseh Sherman Man, at the rate that the God-Emperor is trolling and smiting his enemies, and by extension the enemies...
by Didact | Nov 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Julian Langness, proprietor and author of the excellent blog European Civil War, wrote a book a while back that I read and found to be really rather good. Shortly after I posted my review and comments, Julian got in touch and very graciously asked if I wouldn’t...
by Didact | Nov 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Paul Joseph Watson posted a video earlier this year that does a rather good job of explaining precisely why it is that “pop” (((music))) these days is so unbearably stupid, vacuous, tedious, annoying, overly loud, and just plain unlistenable: You may have...
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