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 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,...
by Didact | Aug 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Do y’all remember what I wrote recently about how India has a serious illegal immigration problem from Bangladesh? Here is a rather good take on the subject that goes beyond simple anecdotal evidence, from Daniel Greenfield: India’s 2,582 mile border with...
by Didact | Jul 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Articles on The Daily Mail are a lot like potato chips in a packet: you know that they are really bad for you, but once you start, you can’t quite resist indulging in one after another after another. This is partly why I don’t seem to get a whole...
by Didact | Jul 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
The new Prime Minster of PommieBastardLand, Boris Johnson, may well be a bit of a clown – at least on the surface – but there is absolutely no doubt that he has some serious intellectual firepower underneath that floppy mop of silly hair and that big...
by Didact | Jul 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Anyone who has not been living under a rock for the past five years knows perfectly well at this point that the one and only real political issue of concern to the entire Western world right now is immigration. Everything else is basically a secondary problem at this...
by Didact | Jul 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it. — Walter Bagehot...
by Didact | Jul 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
The trailer for the very, very, VERY long-awaited sequel to Top Gun has finally been released, and actually, it looks awesome: That, my friends, is how you make a real trailer for a real sequel to… well, admittedly the gayest non-gay 80s movie...
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