by Didact | Jan 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
The long-awaited day has dawned, brothers. Today, Donald J. Trump became the 45th President of the United States of America. There was a time when I thought that I would never, ever hear those words. The very idea that this fleshy, coarse, bouffant-haired,...
by Didact | Jan 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is the second post in what will probably be at most a three-part series, the original intent of which was to provide a very pessimistic civilian’s views on several questions that I have been trying to explore for some time now. The first post looked at the...
by Didact | Jan 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the sci-fi anthology Riding the Red Horse, Vol. 1, the very first story in that set was a work by Eric S. Raymond called “Sucker Punch”, in which Mr. Raymond provided an idea of what future naval and air warfare would look like the day that...
by Didact | Jan 9, 2017 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
Chaps, remember how, back in late November, there was a really rather fetching young woman who promised to blow any man who voted “No” in Italy’s constitutional reform referendum? Which then won in a landslide and forced Prime Minister Matteo Renzi...
by Didact | Jan 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
A bloke named Sebastian Shakespeare, who writes for the Daily Mail, is having a bit of trouble with a basic fact of reality: How does Jeremy Clarkson do it? Looking bleary-eyed and clad in an open-necked shirt that did little to disguise his middleaged paunch, the...
by Didact | Dec 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
Still good advice even as we call time on 2016: There is, by the way, a similar standard for blokes: The lesson to take away here is that you’re not going to impress anyone by being such a special snowflake that you end up simply doing whatever all of the...
by Didact | Dec 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
More or less literally: The Sahara Desert experienced its first snowfall in thirty-seven years, according to images taken Monday afternoon. It is the first time since February 1979 that snow has fallen in Ain Sefra, Algeria, a town in the Sahara Desert, the...
by Didact | Dec 16, 2016 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
In his election night broadcast, Bill Whittle mentioned toward the end of his highly entertaining, if somewhat rambling, God-Emperor Victory speech that he had very recently gotten engaged. He promised to follow up on that and introduce his fans to his fiance, and on...
by Didact | Dec 11, 2016 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
The New York Times The Carlos Slim Blog Pravda published what they call an “op-doc”, which I suppose is Millennial hipster talk for “first-person documentary”, a few years back featuring a 35-year-old single Argentinian Jewess and...
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...
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