by Didact | Nov 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Liberal Mind I doubt very much that anyone who visits and reads this pokey little blog of mine is a liberal. (Well, maybe one or two people at a time are, but they rapidly become so appalled by what I have to say that they flee screaming in terror at what they...
by Didact | Nov 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, there was a criminally underrated sitcom called “Becker” starring Ted Danson as a grumpy, curmudgeonly, cheapskate GP working out of a run-down office in the Bronx. It focused on the many comic travails of his life,...
by Didact | Nov 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
When you up sticks and move across entire continents to a totally different country, culture, and set of surroundings, the wrenching changes imposed by this move focus your mind on that which you left behind. Coming to the United Kingdom, I knew intellectually that...
by Didact | Nov 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Have a badge on us Noise. It is everywhere. All around you, all-pervasive, ever-present, never-ending. The world is a noisy, crowded, bustling place, and always there is something or someone, somewhere, creating noise. It is enough to drive a quiet man to distraction-...
by Didact | Oct 29, 2014 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
A young woman and a rather liberal media artist work together to create something that is unintentionally hilarious and instructive: A 24-year-old aspiring actress has been filmed being catcalled 108 times as she strolled around New York City – even though she...
by Didact | Oct 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
On October 27th, 1964, a handsome-looking former actor in his early fifties took to the stage of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California. He was there to deliver a message that he, and he alone, had spent years of his life honing on the...
by Didact | Oct 9, 2014 | Christianity, Uncategorized
“A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is finished, no matter how brave its warriors, or how strong its weapons.” — Ancient Cheyenne proverb There was a book that I read a while back- I think it might...
by Didact | Sep 17, 2014 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
At least, that’s what happened to one English Playboy Bunny (which is normally something of a contradiction in terms…): A British Playboy model who was diagnosed with brain cancer last year says she has now become a shy introvert after surgery to remove...
by Didact | Sep 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Oh, the pain… Every introvert, without exception, has his or her own particular bugbears about other people. The most common one goes something like this: I’m perfectly happy being by myself, in peace and quiet- why can’t you see and understand that?...
by Didact | Sep 1, 2014 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
Blah blah blah feminist statement blah blah small-breasted women something something and would you please put that shirt on again, Keira? To many, it might seem like an odd decision. Keira Knightley, famously private, has posed topless for a fashion magazine. The...
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