by Didact | Jul 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
I realise that I’ve written on this subject before, but now might not be a bad time to revisit it. It should be plainly obvious to anyone with half a brain that lifting restrictions on women serving in front-line combat is a spectacularly stupid idea. It’s...
by Didact | Jul 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Vox’s recent post, included in my linkage for the week, regarding the rather thorny question of whether it is permissible to strike women who attack you, makes for some thought-provoking reading: First of all, there is nothing more intrinsically wrong about...
by Didact | Jul 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve not been following the Zimmerman/Martin case closely. Actually I’ve hardly been following it at all. However, I will say this about it: the “Not Guilty” verdict does not surprise me. And if there were any sense left in this country, people...
by Didact | Jul 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
President #43’s take on the stupidity that’s come back to bite President #44 in the ass: Snowden leaked details about U.S. communications surveillance programs to The Guardian newspaper and is currently holed up in the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow...
by Didact | Jun 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
It just gets worse every day: The NSA has been working with at least seven European other countries to collect personal communications data, according to Wayne Madsen, a former NSA contractor who has come forward because he does not think the public should not be...
by Didact | Jun 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve been meaning to publish this one for months now but have literally never bothered to sit down and hammer it out properly. Well, given that this weekend is all about setting aside some time to do things that must be done, here goes. The Libertarian...
by Didact | Jun 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
In which a woman who plainly thinks far too highly of herself completely misses the point: Men of my father’s generation would never have dreamed of telling their wives they could not have another child because they wanted more time to themselves. They just got...
by Didact | Jun 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Your Faceborg profile may well be used against you: Since this story was first reported, we’ve been in discussions with U.S. national security authorities urging them to allow more transparency and flexibility around national security-related orders we are required to...
by Didact | Jun 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Obarmy’s reaction to the outrage of the people at his efforts to establish an American Panopticon are exactly what I expected from a high Delta with a massive inferiority complex: President Obama said Friday that the programs have made a difference in tracking...
by Didact | Jun 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Think what you will of Edward Snowden, but before you make up your mind,watch the entire interviewthat he did with The Guardian while on the run in Hong Kong. As far as I’m concerned, he’sa goddamn hero.This man sacrificed everything- a very lucrative...
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