by Didact | Feb 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
I was planning to write a longer post today, but got sidetracked. (Okay, honesty demands that I admit that this is just my way of saying that it was pouring cats and dogs today, and I wasn’t feeling too great because of this disgustingly phlegmy chest infection...
by Didact | Feb 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
It is a near-universal law that intellectuals around the world are Leftists who focus on oppression narratives to explain away the failures of their respective countries to accomplish anything worthwhile – or, in the case of advanced Western nations, to score...
by Didact | Jan 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Or you might just… wake up dead: Very few Westerners truly understand just how alien the Chinese mindset and culture is to liberal, secular, Western social democratic values. You kind of have to go there, or at least live in a society heavily influenced by...
by Didact | Jan 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
… why, oh why, did you go and elect such a smug, arrogant, insufferable, stupid, Socialist (but I repeat myself) MORON as your Prime Minister?!? I ask again, how exactly did this clown get elected? Ah. I see. Basically what happened was that a lot more...
by Didact | Jan 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
… then why did the Roman Emperor Hadrian order the construction of one? Although Hadrian’s biographer wrote “(Hadrian) was the first to build a wall 80 miles long to separate the Romans from the barbarians”, reasons for the construction of the...
by Didact | Dec 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Bruce “THE VOICE OF YAHWEH” Dickinson, also known as the singer of THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME (that is to say, IRON MAIDEN), has some rather sensible and intelligent things to say about the value of Brexit: Reading through the comments that other...
by Didact | Nov 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
One of the very first Western expatriates to settle in China and acculturate into their rather unique society offers a very interesting perspective on the realities of modern China, and on why he thinks that the true Golden Age of China is more or less over at this...
by Didact | Nov 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
SF/F author, veteran, general all-round badass, and sometime nutcase John Ringo created a sci-fi series about 8 years ago called Troy Rising, which described a near-future Earth under embargo by an alien race, and humanity’s response to it. The whole series is...
by Didact | Oct 7, 2018 | Christianity, Uncategorized
Below is given the the testimony of St. John of Damascus and his comments on what he knew to be “the superstition of the Ishmaelites”, and what we today call “Islam”. It is informative to the modern reader because it shows us that many of the...
by Didact | Oct 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
To people on the righteously awesome side of the Atlantic – y’know, the one with all of the guns, and the gun nuts, and the ammo – the United Kingdom of PommieBastardLand seems like it is full of effete limp-wristed wusses who come over all polite...
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