by Didact | Oct 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Well first and foremost because it’s still a colossally stupid idea: One staff sergeant worried that the Marine Corps’ high standards would have to be lowered if women were assigned to combat. Other Marines in the group agreed, warning that women would not be...
by Didact | Sep 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Normally I would never, ever, ever comment upon the Twilight saga. This is for two reasons. One, I have never read any of the books or watched any of the movies. This is because I have a brain and I would very much like to retain use of it, thank you very much. Two, I...
by Didact | Sep 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Steve Sailer posted an interesting except from a book written by a former Lehman Bros. executive regarding the way diversity was forced down the throats of employees at that firm- right around the time that the housing bubble was clearly becoming a huge problem: One...
by Didact | Sep 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was going to post about this Daily Mail article pretty much as soon as I read it, but naturally Vox, since he is both much smarter than me and blessed with far greater amounts of blogging time than I am, beat me to the punch. Sneaky bastard… Anyway, I’m...
by Didact | Aug 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Stephanie from Time of Calamity read through my recent post on having to deal with a mildly annoying co-worker and had some worthy things to say: I have found that as I have cross the threshold into my late twenties that most women don’t evolve. They never...
by Didact | Jul 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
I realise that I’ve written on this subject before, but now might not be a bad time to revisit it. It should be plainly obvious to anyone with half a brain that lifting restrictions on women serving in front-line combat is a spectacularly stupid idea. It’s...
by Didact | Jul 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Vox’s recent post, included in my linkage for the week, regarding the rather thorny question of whether it is permissible to strike women who attack you, makes for some thought-provoking reading: First of all, there is nothing more intrinsically wrong about...
by Didact | Jul 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Vox’s review of Dr. Helen’s new, rather short, book was enough to get me interested in reading the same; after all, anyone worthy of Vox’s respect is generally someone worth reading. So I downloaded it and got to reading it, and immediately thought...
by Didact | Jun 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time before the Supreme Court arrogated to itself the right to reinterpret the law as it alone sees fit: In a blistering rebuke of the Supreme Court decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Antonin Scalia said...
by Didact | Jun 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
In which a woman who plainly thinks far too highly of herself completely misses the point: Men of my father’s generation would never have dreamed of telling their wives they could not have another child because they wanted more time to themselves. They just got...
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