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...
by Didact | Jul 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
These days it is pretty rare for me to find something over at Return of Kings that I genuinely think is worth reading. (There are a few very notable exceptions, such as frequent RoK contributor Quintus Curtius, who always has something interesting to say.) That...
by Didact | Jul 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
The outstanding Mr. Wright has an interesting take on the way the liblepr crowd (to borrow a Kratmanism) destroys beauty, and why: The most precious, profound and important of the great ideas which the Left has raped from us is beauty. I need spend no time on the...
by Didact | Jul 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Yes, I know, ha-ha, clever wordplay. Let’s not forget, however, that the inexplicable refusal of this country’s government to secure and safeguard its borders- which is literally the entire point of government- has real consequences. And don’t think...
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