by Didact | Nov 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. — Quote often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin “I find your lack of cookies disturbing” Today America’s voters went to the polls in one of the country’s innumerable...
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 17, 2014 | Christianity, Uncategorized
A woman who aborted her baby when she realised that it would be born with Down’s Syndrome tries to sound appropriately contrite and begs our understanding: One in 1,000 babies in the UK — about 750 a year — is born with Down’s syndrome. But with better...
by Didact | Oct 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
And you’re surprised that I’m wearing a HazMat suit in public? But we knew that already. Guess what else is highly contagious? Two patients who had symptoms similar to those Ebola and were rushed to a New York hospital today do not have the virus, it was...
by Didact | Oct 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Bill Whittle takes on a liberal meme. I’ll just shut up now and let you watch: Watching this, I am strongly reminded of a great quote from one Mike Baxter of perhaps the only pro-conservative TV show that one can watch these days- “Last Man...
by Didact | Oct 12, 2014 | HALO, Uncategorized
The Mantle. You still hold to that [fairy tale] after all that has happened? After this thing has consumed a million worlds? Can’t you see? Belief in the Mantle sealed our doom! Weakened our [protectorates], bred dependence and sloth. Our [so-called...
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 | Oct 7, 2014 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
(Credit goes to El Capitan for finding this little gem.) Apparently our intrepid Benevolent Government Overlords are now spending damn-near half a million dollars to figure out why fat girls can’t get dates: The federal government is spending nearly a half a...
by Didact | Oct 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Didact Sr. sent me an interesting article showing that the Swiss still, for the moment at least, have their heads screwed on right when it comes to the never-ending and frankly pointless debate about who should pay for health care: Swiss voters on Sunday rejected...
by Didact | Oct 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
As if the flu wasn’t bad enough, now we have an actual haemorrhagic fever imported straight from Africa to deal with: Schoolchildren in Texas may be at risk from Ebola today after five children who attend four different Dallas schools came in close contact with...
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