by Didact | Feb 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
(Note: This post was written in two parts with about 9 hours of extremely necessary sleep in between them, so if it seems a little disjointed or the publication time doesn’t jive with events described, it’s not your imagination.) God’s Teeth, but I...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Just got back from a day-long basic handgun course. It’s colder than a witch’s tit outside, and it’s actually going to get worse (somehow) over the next couple of days, so I figure I might as well blog while my brain is still defrosted. Taking...
by Didact | Feb 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Charlie Bushmeister from The Single Dude’s Guide took a trip to London and was rather underwhelmed: On my last trip to London I had a small apartment off of Brick Lane, in the Shoreditch neighborhood, which is Ground Zero for London hipsterism. Arriving by...
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,...
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