by Didact | Oct 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
And you’re surprised that I’m wearing a HazMat suit in public? But we knew that already. Guess what else is highly contagious? Two patients who had symptoms similar to those Ebola and were rushed to a New York hospital today do not have the virus, it was...
by Didact | Oct 12, 2014 | HALO, Uncategorized
The Mantle. You still hold to that [fairy tale] after all that has happened? After this thing has consumed a million worlds? Can’t you see? Belief in the Mantle sealed our doom! Weakened our [protectorates], bred dependence and sloth. Our [so-called...
by Didact | Oct 7, 2014 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
(Credit goes to El Capitan for finding this little gem.) Apparently our intrepid Benevolent Government Overlords are now spending damn-near half a million dollars to figure out why fat girls can’t get dates: The federal government is spending nearly a half a...
by Didact | Oct 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via good ol’ Derb over at Taki’s place, take a look at this projection of the world’s population over the next 50-odd years: “Charty goodness”, as ye olde Capitaine would say… Basically, by 2100, Asians and Africans will dominate...
by Didact | Oct 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Didact Sr. sent me an interesting article showing that the Swiss still, for the moment at least, have their heads screwed on right when it comes to the never-ending and frankly pointless debate about who should pay for health care: Swiss voters on Sunday rejected...
by Didact | Oct 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of the more odd character traits that can be observed among Americans- across all shades of the political spectrum- is a curious fascination with meddling in Israel’s domestic and foreign affairs. If I didn’t know (at least slightly) better, I...
by Didact | Oct 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
The venerable Prof. Ian Plimer- perhaps best known for his vociferous, uncompromising, and (usually) rigourous take-downs of the pseudoscience that is most properly known as the “Anthropogenic Global Warming” theory- had some typically blunt things to say...
by Didact | Oct 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
As if the flu wasn’t bad enough, now we have an actual haemorrhagic fever imported straight from Africa to deal with: Schoolchildren in Texas may be at risk from Ebola today after five children who attend four different Dallas schools came in close contact with...
by Didact | Sep 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
I recently had the opportunity to re-establish contact with an old acquaintance of mine from college. She and I have done very little to keep in touch other than my sending her an annual happy-birthday email; beyond that, we’ve not seen each other in nearly ten...
by Didact | Sep 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve met the people. They’re not too bad… as long as they’re drunk. So Scotland remains part of the United Kingdom- and judging by the poll results, it wasn’t even close in most areas. It would appear that the pro-Unionist...
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