by Didact | Sep 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s funny because it’s true In that whole discussion about “sugar daddies”, and their “game” (or, in my opinion, lack thereof), an interesting topic came up. As I said in that post, there is no moral difference whatsoever between...
by Didact | Sep 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Oh, the pain… Every introvert, without exception, has his or her own particular bugbears about other people. The most common one goes something like this: I’m perfectly happy being by myself, in peace and quiet- why can’t you see and understand that?...
by Didact | Sep 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
As the Cold War reached what mathematicians refer to in functional analysis as a “local maximum” during the late 1950s and early 1960s, American appeared to be on the back foot, retreating in the face of relentless Soviet pressure. The Warsaw Pact’s...
by Didact | Sep 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Cobblers: This is an important distinction that we need to grasp in economics, this division into macro and micro: obviously, meaning large and small. [Didact: Wrong. There is no distinction. But we’ll get to that.] But in more detail, macro is trying to...
by Didact | Sep 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
The lady with the giant nose and even more impressive lack of perspective is back- maybe that honking great wine-sniffer gets in the way of her field of vision?- and is wondering why we can’t all hold hands and sing kumbaya around the fire: In these...
by Didact | Sep 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
From a while back, I know- but it’s becoming clear that the Magic Black President who was supposed to heal everything that is wrong with this country didn’t really work out that way: The trailers were great, but the movie was horrible. Six years in,...
by Didact | Aug 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Lord but it is good to be back home. (Going back to work and having my extroverted colleague yapping in my ear all the time, not so much…) Yet I cannot help but feel a wrenching sense of loss at having left Eretz Israel. I have said it before, and now I...
by Didact | Aug 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Aaron Clarey gives the only possible rational response to this stupid ALS ice bucket challenge that’s sweeping the globe, for reasons that I completely fail to understand: Look, I’ll make this really simple. This is a disease that affects a total of up to...
by Didact | Aug 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
God didn’t pick us because we were weak or would run from danger. We’ve taken murder and sorrow and humiliation for six thousand years and we have kept faith. We have outlived everyone who has tried to destroy us. Can’t you see it, Kitty? … this...
by Didact | Aug 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
A (male) writer for the Telly is somewhat perplexed as to why he couldn’t do the “gentlemanly” thing and step in during an altercation between a large man and a small woman: The man wouldn’t let her get away. As she grew visibly more distressed, his...
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