by Didact | May 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
It would appear that the received wisdom about hearthealthywholegrains is finally dying the ignominious death it so thoroughly deserves: For decades they have been blacklisted as foods to avoid, the cause of deadly thickening of the arteries, heart disease and...
by Didact | May 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
The fact that this country still takes, even today, such enormous pride in its soldiers is one of the many, many things that I love about it. You have to travel outside of the US to understand just how unusual it is to find a country that not only loves but...
by Didact | May 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
The GOP’s 2016 electoral strategy George W. “Compassionate Conservative” Bush’s brother apparently seems to think that having yet another progressive Republican cast in the mould of Theodore Roosevelt and John McCain leading the US would be a...
by Didact | Apr 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
Just when you thought the US government couldn’t get any more retarded, they manage to take that incredibly low bar- and then smash headfirst into it: The federal government missed an estimated $41.1 million in “cost savings” transporting immigrant detainees on...
by Didact | Mar 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
The funniest jokes are always the ones that poke sharp sticks into the vulnerable points of real things, and this is no exception. If you’ve ever had to listen to an economist from a central bank speaking on television- and here I’m referring to...
by Didact | Mar 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Anyone want to take a punt as to the ethnicity and race of the perpetrators of a recent shooting at a pub in Sweden? At least two people were killed and eight injured during a shooting at pub in Sweden last night. Automatic weapons are believed to have been used...
by Didact | Mar 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Sticking with the theme of taking a sledgehammer to some of Britain’s most beloved institutions, it would appear that one Mike Portnoy was on the receiving end of this country’s idea of “free and fair healthcare”: This is the reality of...
by Didact | Feb 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
They promise to match you at a deep level of compatibility… with 72 other guys The Austrian government appears to be realising that the country’s people might be on to something: Austria has passed a significant change in the law which is designed to...
by Didact | Feb 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
And good bloody riddance It would appear that the Greeks and the Germans between them are hell-bent on doing everything they can to destroy the European single currency. Good. Neither side’s intransigence and belligerence should come as any kind of surprise, and...
by Didact | Feb 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Science: what scientists THINK they do Get this, folks- it turns out that saturated fat isn’t quite as horrible for you as we’ve all been told to believe it was. Indeed, the expert consensus that we were told was stamped and ratified by governments...
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