by Didact | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Can’t say I’m even slightly surprised that NHS hospitals are turning out to be places you go to die, not places you go to get better: More than 3,000 patients have died ‘unexpectedly’ in just five NHS trusts in the past two years. The five are among nearly...
by Didact | Feb 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Oh, sure, George, go on, tell us another one: Reckless banks will be allowed to go to the wall so taxpayers never have to bail them out again, George Osborne will announce today. The Chancellor will outline plans to ring-fence high street operations from the...
by Didact | Feb 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Courtesy of Vox Day, here’s an article that should tickle Da Bernank’s funnybone good and proper: Zimbabwe’s finance minister has taken a hard look at the cash strapped country’s bank accounts – and discovered it only has £138 and 34...
by Didact | Feb 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
wrand starts off very well in an essay about whether men fear commitment, and concludes that it’s only American women who cause commitment phobia in men: I know of several men who are committed to their marriages. They have all been married more than ten...
by Didact | Feb 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s not often that you come across a book right in the wake of a public tragedy that was published some time earlier, and yet seems perfectly suited for the times. Matthew Bracken’s first entry in his Enemies trilogy, however, provided me with one such...
by Didact | Jan 27, 2013 | fitness, HALO, Uncategorized
This one will demonstrate exactly why much of my immediate family thinks that I’ve gone off the deep end and am some kind of America-loving wannabe deep-fried redneck hillbilly. Can’t say I care, I’ve wanted to do this for years. As far as I’m...
by Didact | Jan 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Now if this were ancient Sparta, and the Persians were at the gates of the city, this sort of thing might not be a bad idea. Then again, the difference is that Sparta’s women actually had some idea which end of a spear to use in combat. This, on the other hand,...
by Didact | Jan 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
So there I was, woken up by my asshole neighbours and their footsteps sounding through my ceiling yet again, checking out what happened during the week, when lo and behold, I find this on the Daily Caller: This is a perfect example of what Anonymous...
by Didact | Jan 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
We’re at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it’s been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest...
by Didact | Jan 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
… unfortunately, it also brought mortis: Just when you thought the central planners had everything squared away in a tidy little package (the jobless rate is rising? Sell vol. Not enough iPhone 77.25S are being sold? Sell vol. Ben Bernanke’s voice is...
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