by Didact | Feb 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
One of the very best biographies that I have ever read is Robert Coram’s superb book, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War, which I followed up shortly afterwards with its spiritual “counterpart”, The Mind of War: John Boyd...
by Didact | Feb 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our friendly neighbourhood Gentleman Adventurer had a guest on his podcast yesterday, and that guest just so happened to be yer ‘umble servant ‘ere. Now, to hear his side of the story, I badgered him to be on his podcast until he finally relented and gave...
by Didact | Feb 2, 2019 | Christianity, Uncategorized
One of the most vivid and persistent myths from the ancient world has to do with the outcome of the Third Punic War, in which the victorious Romans supposedly sowed the the city with salt in order to ensure that nothing of value would ever grow there again. That this...
by Didact | Jan 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
As Mark Dice and sci-fi Grandmaster John C. Wright have pointed out separately, there is a really quite superb commercial making the rounds right now from a watch company named Egard: Check out their website and, if you’re in the market for a watch, or need a...
by Didact | Jan 24, 2019 | Christianity, Uncategorized
When I saw a headline over onThe Daily Mail a couple of days ago screaming bloody murder about how a bunch of white boys from a Catholic high school in Kentucky mocked a Native American “elder” and Vietnam veteran, my first thought was…...
by Didact | Jan 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
… why, oh why, did you go and elect such a smug, arrogant, insufferable, stupid, Socialist (but I repeat myself) MORON as your Prime Minister?!? I ask again, how exactly did this clown get elected? Ah. I see. Basically what happened was that a lot more...
by Didact | Jan 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
This will not come as much of a surprise to anyone who was paying attention toward the end of last year (I admittedly was not), but (former) pick-up artistry guru Neil Strauss is, apparently, getting divorced. Now, the source for this report was The Daily Mail, and...
by Didact | Jan 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Did you ever wonder how Europe ended up being such an utter dog’s breakfast in terms of political alliances and associated asshattery? Blame the Treaty of Westphalia: That was from back when English comedy used to be really, really funny. These days,...
by Didact | Jan 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
I already had a post lined up for today, but the latest attempt by a big company to “get woke” backfired so spectacularly and so brilliantly that I simply had to jump onto that particular bandwagon. Take a look at the new Gillette “We Believe”...
by Didact | Jan 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
In case you woke up this morning with a severe case of the blues, perhaps you will allow me to make them worse. Here is the case of a boy, who became a man, and then decided he was gay; then eventually decided that he was actually a woman in a man’s body and...
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