by Didact | Aug 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Repeatedly, thoroughly, and regardless of sex: When Sarah West was appointed the first female commander of a major Royal Navy Warship, she talked about the toll life on the sea had taken on her personal relationships. “There are drawbacks,” she said as she took charge...
by Didact | Aug 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
President Jackass proves that he, and his idiotic multiculturalist agenda, is every bit as dysfunctional as his critics have been claiming for years: Take a White House state dinner and multiply it by 50. The result is the most elaborate and unusual dinner of...
by Didact | Aug 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Vox- who got this from Heartiste, who in turn got it from… well, somewhere- here is a video that, in a sensible world, would serve as a rallying cry across this country to the youngsters of today: As Vox pointed out in both of his blogs, this video is a sort...
by Didact | Aug 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Vox Day had some rather trenchant things to say about the H-1B “worker visa” programme yesterday, on the back of an interesting article that pointed out that companies are now using the H-1B system to force domestic IT workers to train their foreign...
by Didact | Aug 5, 2014 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
A female writer for the Telegraph belatedly discovers the basics of girl game: A few weeks ago, I was hanging out with some male friends [Didact: Translation- guys she would not sleep with] and conversation turned to which female celebrities would be on my...
by Didact | Aug 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
I first heard that phrase in connection with the controversy over whether or not the first Moon landing actually happened back in 1969*. It was used in a rather interesting BBC documentary- it might actually have been the History Channel, come to think of it- by...
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 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 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...
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