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...
by Didact | Jul 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
That is the only appropriate adjective that can be used to describe the British Advertising Standards Agency, when they banned the truly awesome new ad for the truly awesome new Jaguar F-type coupe. Which just so happened to star Tom Hiddleston, who is apparently tied...
by Didact | Jul 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Ann Barnhardt and WND, a bit of news that will surely have the eeeeeevil selfish money-loving right-wing loonies (like yours truly) positively choking on schadenfreude: “When I finally found her address, I knocked on her door and brought her a pair of...
by Didact | Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
The always delightful and always outspoken Ms. Barnhardt- she of the hilariously awesome Koran + bacon + lighter fluid video from a couple of years back- came up with a great sci-fi analogy to explain how our most important and cherished institutions have been...
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