by Didact | Aug 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
In which the New York Times goes into considerable length to ask a question for which the answer is staring them right in the face: The new math of the ‘60s, the new new math of the ‘80s and today’s Common Core math all stem from the idea that the traditional way of...
by Didact | Jul 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’m not exactly up on my pop culture references. I don’t pay attention to pop music now that Billy Joel is retired*. So I’m not really sure who Katy Perry is, or why she’s famous. Oh. Right. And normally, that would be the end of it. But when a...
by Didact | Jul 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t yet read John Ringo’s The Last Centurion, I highly recommend it. For all of its flaws in writing style and narrative flow, it is a highly entertaining, very memorable, and quite enjoyable near-future military fiction novel. It is also a...
by Didact | Jul 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
As if there was ever any doubt as to what women want- and why you should never, ever take their delusions about their own sexual value seriously- this quite hilarious article caught my eye this morning: Jacqui Lambie, an Australian MP who shares the balance of power...
by Didact | Jul 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
The last five years have certainly been… eventful when it comes to the world of high finance. In 2008, the world discovered that the geniuses to whom the public had entrusted trillions of dollars didn’t really have a clue how to manage it responsibly....
by Didact | Jul 25, 2014 | gym idiots, Uncategorized
Tim Muriello from www.illpumpyouup.com (a fitness supplement and advice site for bodybuilders) has some rather amusing advice for men who think that the idea of dating a fitness-obsessed woman is a Good Idea: As if that wasn’t amusing/silly enough, there’s...
by Didact | Jul 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I was 14, I read two books that changed my thinking and my life forever. The first was a novel, based on real events, called Exodus, by one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers, Leon Uris. It provided a fictionalised, but largely accurate, account of the...
by Didact | Jul 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Mocking feminists is like drop-kicking chihuahuas- not even all that much fun because it’s just too easy So there I was yesterday afternoon, walking down to the riverfront to eat lunch on a beautiful sunny day, minding my own business and generally trying to...
by Didact | Jul 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you take up a martial art and practice it for any serious length of time, you’ll eventually come across the question of which art is “best”. This is a very difficult question to answer properly, and unfortunately most people don’t even...
by Didact | Jul 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Ann Barnhardt and WND, a bit of news that will surely have the eeeeeevil selfish money-loving right-wing loonies (like yours truly) positively choking on schadenfreude: “When I finally found her address, I knocked on her door and brought her a pair of...
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