by Didact | Nov 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yeah, right. “Sustainable”, my tightly sculpted @$$… Singapore has invested heavily in public housing, transport infrastructure and training its citizen workforce to raise manpower productivity in recent years. These efforts are complemented by...
by Didact | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I am admittedly quite late to this story, but then I have rather better things to do than worry about who’s starring in the latest godawful stupid idea from a Hollywood studio system that has very clearly run out of ideas: Charlie Hunnam, the erstwhile star of...
by Didact | Oct 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Quick! Someone patent this before the Cambodians do! Yes, that is exactly what it looks like- a one-handed fried breaded chicken nugget meal/drink combo. I am, frankly, astonished that some land whale in ‘Murica hasn’t figured this out already, and made a...
by Didact | Sep 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
There are times when I feel like the gene pool desperately needs a lifeguard. And then idiots like this one come along, and I realise that we might just be OK after all: A meteorologist who has covered weather for the Wall Street Journal tweeted that he has decided...
by Didact | Sep 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Normally I would never, ever, ever comment upon the Twilight saga. This is for two reasons. One, I have never read any of the books or watched any of the movies. This is because I have a brain and I would very much like to retain use of it, thank you very much. Two, I...
by Didact | Sep 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
“But honestly, Miss, the computer model told me to say it!!!”: The Mail on Sunday has obtained the final draft of a report to be published later this month by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the ultimate watchdog whose massive,...
by Didact | Sep 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Steve Sailer posted an interesting except from a book written by a former Lehman Bros. executive regarding the way diversity was forced down the throats of employees at that firm- right around the time that the housing bubble was clearly becoming a huge problem: One...
by Didact | Sep 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was going to post about this Daily Mail article pretty much as soon as I read it, but naturally Vox, since he is both much smarter than me and blessed with far greater amounts of blogging time than I am, beat me to the punch. Sneaky bastard… Anyway, I’m...
by Didact | Sep 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
“… we might have kinda sorta maybe goofed a little…”: The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year. More than 20 yachts that had planned to sail it have been left ice-bound and a cruise ship...
by Didact | Sep 5, 2013 | Christianity, Uncategorized
[Damn religious holidays… If it weren’t for the fact that Rosh Hashanah is today (and I didn’t know it), I could have reached out and punched someone at a Krav Maga class. Instead here I am writing a blog post… Oh well. If you happen to be...
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