by Didact | Sep 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
I recently had the opportunity to re-establish contact with an old acquaintance of mine from college. She and I have done very little to keep in touch other than my sending her an annual happy-birthday email; beyond that, we’ve not seen each other in nearly ten...
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 | Aug 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Pat Buchanan proves, yet again, exactly why the rest of the country should be listening to him very closely when it comes to foreign policy: But before allowing these “Cassandras” to stampede us back into the civil-sectarian Middle East wars that resulted from our...
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
For some strange reason no one seems to bother asking exactly why the Islamist fundamentalist loony fruitcakes (yes, I know, quadruple redundancy, I’m on vacation dammit!) of ISIS are insisting on going about murdering and otherwise doing very unpleasant...
by Didact | Jul 16, 2014 | Christianity, Uncategorized
I spotted this article earlier today and would have said something about it at the time, but I was at work, and of course Vox Day beat me to the punch. That still doesn’t stop this idea of ordaining not just female pastors, but female bishops too, from...
by Didact | May 14, 2014 | Christianity, Uncategorized
Apparently even the great Mother Church’s own clergy are beginning to see what a poor benighted agnostic like me figured out a long time ago: Despite the bright, warm sunshine outside, a pessimistic fog spread over the Washington Hilton early this morning as the...
by Didact | May 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Apparently the talking heads in the media and the “fashionable” political circles of this country are very surprised and deeply outraged at the threats that a group of Islamic “terrorists” have made regarding selling over 200 kidnapped girls...
by Didact | Mar 22, 2014 | Christianity, Uncategorized
Someone- let’s call him A. Reader for now- emailed me with some reading material a little while back and asked for my opinion on it: I have been meaning to contact you for some time to ask if you’ve ever read an early Christian work called The Didache. I...
by Didact | Mar 15, 2014 | Christianity, Uncategorized
A young Churchian completely misses the point of the teachings of her faith: But, for my friend Ella*, these issues and obstacles seem blissfully trivial in comparison to the worries that keep her up at night as the big day approaches. She’s marrying her...
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