by Didact | Sep 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
It used to be easy for me to insult the New York F***ing Times by calling them ПРАВДА, which those of you who know your history will recognise as the state-run newspaper in Soviet times whose name meant, hilariously, “truth” in Russian. The Russkies...
by Didact | Sep 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
In the wake of Robert Francis Shamrocks Padraig Kilkenny Guinness Begorrah O’Meara Shillelagh O’Rourke’s strident insistence that the Daemoncrats absolutely will come and take your guns, Paul Ramsey provides a pessimistic Gen-X Hard Right take...
by Didact | Sep 17, 2019 | fitness, Uncategorized
Do YOU have what it takes to join Her Majesty’s Royal Marines? I’ll be very honest here: I sure as Hell couldn’t have passed that test, when I was 18. I was very fat and quite slow and my cardiovascular endurance was piss-poor. A year and a bit of...
by Didact | Sep 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Until His Most August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra*, came along and completely overturned the apple-cart of the political establishment, we never really had a good term to describe the way...
by Didact | Sep 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
In most civilised nations, eighteen years is the span of time required for a child to go from a squalling wailing helpless little blob, through to the wobbly walking and falling over stage, up to actual controlled movement and motion, onward into having a real...
by Didact | Sep 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
The swamp-draining carries on: President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has terminated National Security Advisor John Bolton from his position, citing strong disagreement on “many of his suggestions” regarding foreign policy. “I informed John Bolton last night...
by Didact | Sep 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
It has become very clear over the past few years that Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilisations” hypothesis was eerily prescient, and that China will indeed become one of the primary belligerents in a roughly five-way global conflict. The Chinese,...
by Didact | Sep 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
… that your eye exploded while you were giving a proper harangue onstage? Former Vice President Joe Biden’s left eye filled with blood while he was onstage Wednesday during a CNN town hall on climate change, apparently from a burst vessel. Biden was in the...
by Didact | Aug 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Once again I find myself reading far, far too many books – though at a greatly reduced speed, for various reasons – and once again, one of those books is thought-provoking enough to prompt a deeper look. While this is not intended as a book...
by Didact | Aug 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
The new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of PommieBastardLand, one big fat fluffy teddy-bear named Boris Johnson, is showing that this bear has serious claws: Boris Johnson will suspend parliament in a bid to stop MPs thwarting Brexit as the Prime Minister...
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