by Didact | Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Cultural insensitivity can be hilariously awesome AM sent over an interesting link to a Cracked.com article last night that talked about five unpleasant realities of visiting India as a young Western woman. It is worth reading through all the way, if only to get an...
by Didact | Apr 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
The faces of peace and brotherly love I can’t believe that anyone would have the effrontery, the audacity, the bare-faced cheek, to suggest that South Africa is anything other than a happy land of rainbows and unicorns where cats and dogs live in...
by Didact | Apr 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
Recently I finished up Karen Traviss’s final book of the Kilo-Five Trilogy, titled HALO: Mortal Dictata. The book itself was interesting enough, I suppose; at any rate, her work in the HALOverse did a lot to raise my dismally poor opinion of her work,...
by Didact | Apr 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Which is why you don’t waste time arguing with them- you simply destroy them and move on I know I’ve been banging on about Top Gear for a while now, but I just couldn’t help reacting when I saw that Jeremy Clarkson had been fired from the show...
by Didact | Apr 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
I believe I can flyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! Lord here we go…: Bernie Ecclestone is considering a women’s Formula One championship to give fans extra value for money during grand prix weekends. Ecclestone, the sport’s chief executive, floated the idea at a meeting...
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 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Well… he DOES have a point… I certainly don’t mind admitting that I enjoy seeing stupid ideas destroyed when they run head-first into the unyielding wall of reality, formed as it is from the bricks of logic and the mortar of evidence. It is worth...
by Didact | Mar 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
This is NOT how I thought the greatest television show ever conceived by human intelligence would end: Jeremy Clarkson faces arrest today after the BBC sacked him for punching a Top Gear producer in the face with such force he had to go to A&E. The...
by Didact | Mar 21, 2015 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
Tyra Banks was once a Victoria’s Secret Angel- one of the originals, along with the likes of Helena Christensen. She was capable of sharing the stage with Heidi Klum, back in the day, when it came to looks. And that is saying something, considering that this is...
by Didact | Mar 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Amen, Baldy There is apparently a black female rapper by the name of Azealia Banks, who posed for Playboy and was extensively interviewed by the same for the March issue. Her comments about her own country were, well, less than complimentary: Do you want to leave...
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