by Didact | Aug 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Repeatedly, thoroughly, and regardless of sex: When Sarah West was appointed the first female commander of a major Royal Navy Warship, she talked about the toll life on the sea had taken on her personal relationships. “There are drawbacks,” she said as she took charge...
by Didact | Aug 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
President Jackass proves that he, and his idiotic multiculturalist agenda, is every bit as dysfunctional as his critics have been claiming for years: Take a White House state dinner and multiply it by 50. The result is the most elaborate and unusual dinner of...
by Didact | Aug 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Vox- who got this from Heartiste, who in turn got it from… well, somewhere- here is a video that, in a sensible world, would serve as a rallying cry across this country to the youngsters of today: As Vox pointed out in both of his blogs, this video is a sort...
by Didact | Aug 3, 2014 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
In which a spat between a douchebag and a crybaby over the erstwhile affections of one of the most beautiful women alive is thoroughly misrepresented: A battle erupted this week between film star Orlando Bloom and teen popstrel and social irritant Justin Bieber...
by Didact | Aug 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
In which the New York Times goes into considerable length to ask a question for which the answer is staring them right in the face: The new math of the ‘60s, the new new math of the ‘80s and today’s Common Core math all stem from the idea that the traditional way of...
by Didact | Jul 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t yet read John Ringo’s The Last Centurion, I highly recommend it. For all of its flaws in writing style and narrative flow, it is a highly entertaining, very memorable, and quite enjoyable near-future military fiction novel. It is also a...
by Didact | Jul 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I was 14, I read two books that changed my thinking and my life forever. The first was a novel, based on real events, called Exodus, by one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers, Leon Uris. It provided a fictionalised, but largely accurate, account of the...
by Didact | Jul 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
I could hear Col. Dubois in my mind: “Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part… and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.” — Juan...
by Didact | Jul 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
That is the only appropriate adjective that can be used to describe the British Advertising Standards Agency, when they banned the truly awesome new ad for the truly awesome new Jaguar F-type coupe. Which just so happened to star Tom Hiddleston, who is apparently tied...
by Didact | Jul 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you take up a martial art and practice it for any serious length of time, you’ll eventually come across the question of which art is “best”. This is a very difficult question to answer properly, and unfortunately most people don’t even...
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