by Didact | Nov 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
When you up sticks and move across entire continents to a totally different country, culture, and set of surroundings, the wrenching changes imposed by this move focus your mind on that which you left behind. Coming to the United Kingdom, I knew intellectually that...
by Didact | Nov 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Have a badge on us Noise. It is everywhere. All around you, all-pervasive, ever-present, never-ending. The world is a noisy, crowded, bustling place, and always there is something or someone, somewhere, creating noise. It is enough to drive a quiet man to distraction-...
by Didact | Nov 8, 2014 | fat girl jihad, HALO, Uncategorized
Up until fairly recently, the #Gamergate thing was one of those routine storms in a teacup that flares up from time to time between those of us who like a bit of order and sense in the world, and those Morlocks* among the “social justice” set who stand...
by Didact | Nov 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Truth Right at this moment, fireworks are going off a few miles away at Westminster, as a tribute to Guy Fawkes. For you Americans, who are not particularly familiar with non-American traditions (nor should you be), this is a bloke to whom many of you MOLON LABE...
by Didact | Nov 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. — Quote often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin “I find your lack of cookies disturbing” Today America’s voters went to the polls in one of the country’s innumerable...
by Didact | Nov 3, 2014 | fitness, gym idiots, Uncategorized
The Iron God and I have had, and continue to have, a long and fruitful relationship. I have written many times about the tremendous value to be found in lifting hard and heavy, pushing one’s body and mind to the breaking point and beyond in the crucible that is...
by Didact | Nov 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
One week before I left the US for my little six-month sojourn to the warm and pleasantly sunny miserably cold, wet, and wind-swept northern realm of the United Kingdom (of Depressing Weather), I had the opportunity to see not one, but two of my favourite...
by Didact | Nov 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Among those of us who embrace a… shall we say, non-standard perspective when it comes to relationships and sex, the question of whether or not to get married is generally met with anything ranging from mild derision to outright scorn....
by Didact | Oct 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Trust good old Bill Whittle to put the 2nd Amendment in terms that even the average brain-dead liberal should be able to understand: I especially like what he did when he rephrased the 2nd Amendment in terms of an inalienable right to read books. Try this on the next...
by Didact | Oct 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Well, I’m back. Just not in the usual place, that’s all. I’m sure that the two men and the dog that follow this pokey little blog of mine were wondering where I’d been for the past week-and-a-bit. The answer is that I spent the entirety of the...
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