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...
by Didact | Jan 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Look up “irony” in the dictionary, and this is what you’ll see So I landed back in the (formerly) Land of the Free last Saturday morning, after a quite painful and arduous 26-hour journey halfway across the world, jet-lagged out of my mind, to find...
by Didact | Jan 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Of all of the countries in the world, I didn’t expect the land of Moses to support something that goes directly against one of the oldest ideas in the Bible: In 2014, the government of Israel will pay to abort babies for any woman aged 20 to 33 regardless...
by Didact | Dec 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Normally I wouldn’t touch Paul Krugman’s periodic outbursts of moon-brained stupidity with a ten-foot pole. I leave that to older and wiser people (who also have the time to deal with such things). His latest NYT column, though, is literally a target just...
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