by Didact | Mar 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Recently a minor kerfuffle erupted between two well-known bloggers for the Daily Telegraph over the precise ideological nature of the Nazis. On the one side you have Daniel Hannan, who claims that the ideological roots of fascism and Nazism lie well and truly on the...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Apparently the Manosphere is now, according to certain breathless and all too easily startled poltroons over on the left side of the pond, run by Sith Lords of the Dark Enlightenment who all want to do Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Things to human society by...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
I have a fairly (un)healthy contempt for the Obarmy administration’s general cluelessness about most things in general, but when it comes to domestic energy production, I find myself wondering if anyone who works for the current Executive branch, from the...
by Didact | Feb 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything. — G. K. Chesterton Among the many- far too many- books that I find myself reading at any given time, one of the most interesting,...
by Didact | Jan 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
The next few years (or decades) could be very, very cold: The Sun’s activity is at its lowest for 100 years, scientists have warned. They say the conditions are eerily similar to those before the Maunder Minimum, a time in 1645 when a mini ice age hit,...
by Didact | Jan 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you are at least somewhat conversant with a modern programming language- and in particular with C++, Java, or C#- then you’ll have some idea what I’m talking about when I say that this is quite possibly the funniest damn thing you’ve seen so...
by Didact | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Normally I rather enjoy Cracked.com’s highly irreverent and thoroughly offbeat commentary on issues large and small. Recently, however, they published a list that purported to show how hard life is for women in the military, and I have to say that I got more...
by Didact | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
A while back, a College-Educated Feminist and I were listening to a random selection of tracks (playing from a set of CDs she selected). A track by John Mayer came on. I think I made an offhand comment about Taylor Swift at some point during that song- something do to...
by Didact | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Yet for some reason, some bird named Beyonce Knowles is thoroughly puzzled as to why this vexing situation should exist: The Grammy-award winner signed the essay using her hyphenated married name, Beyonce Knowles-Carter. ‘Humanity requires both men and...
by Didact | Jan 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Evil bastards and loonies they may well be, but in their own minds, at least, they mean well: A campaign for the European Union to become a “United States of Europe” will be the “best weapon against the Eurosceptics”, one of...
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