by Didact | Feb 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything. — G. K. Chesterton Among the many- far too many- books that I find myself reading at any given time, one of the most interesting,...
by Didact | Jan 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Uh… it does? As mentioned in my review of David P. Goldman’s book, How Civilisations Die (and Why Islam is Dying Too), the author, better known as the online conservative columnist Spengler, peppered that same book with a series of thought-provoking...
by Didact | Jan 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Not too long ago I wrote a post about free trade and I mentioned something in passing that I think needs some elaboration. I stated that India followed openly socialistic policies designed to produce self-sufficiency in most basic goods and services from the time of...
by Didact | Jan 21, 2014 | Christianity, Uncategorized
One of the very common objections made by feminists (of the Jizzabel stripe) and white knights to the ideas and themes of the ‘Sphere is that our stated goal of promoting a society in which men are once more in charge would reduce women back to a state of...
by Didact | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Normally I rather enjoy Cracked.com’s highly irreverent and thoroughly offbeat commentary on issues large and small. Recently, however, they published a list that purported to show how hard life is for women in the military, and I have to say that I got more...
by Didact | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
A while back, a College-Educated Feminist and I were listening to a random selection of tracks (playing from a set of CDs she selected). A track by John Mayer came on. I think I made an offhand comment about Taylor Swift at some point during that song- something do to...
by Didact | Jan 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
A woman by the name of Alli Reed who apparently had a bit too much time on her hands recently decided to run a little thought experiment by testing the limits of betatude among male users of online dating services to the very limit- and beyond: As a child of the...
by Didact | Jan 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Look up “irony” in the dictionary, and this is what you’ll see So I landed back in the (formerly) Land of the Free last Saturday morning, after a quite painful and arduous 26-hour journey halfway across the world, jet-lagged out of my mind, to find...
by Didact | Jan 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s very rare for an American politician, of any party, to speak truthfully in public these days. I have a few minor differences with Col. Allen West (US Army, Ret.), but for the most part I’d say he’s one of the few genuine conservatives who really...
by Didact | Jan 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Apparently, the entire Twihard Saga contains approximately 575,100 words in total. And yes, I do want returned to my life the five seconds or so that I spent Googling that. Which is why we all owe a great debt of gratitude to the fine people over at Cracked.com...
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