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...
by Didact | Sep 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
President Donaldus Triumphus Magnus condescended to allow delegates from the lesser nations of the Earth to listen to his words of wisdom, badassitude, and all-round general awesomeness a couple of days ago. As is usual whenever this particular POTUS makes a speech,...
by Didact | Sep 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
General William Tecumseh Sherman is not usually someone that I particularly like to quote. His March to the Sea basically broke the back of the Confederacy by inflicting appalling brutality upon the population of Georgia, leaving a swathe of destruction some 60 miles...
by Didact | Sep 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
… here are a few songs of the South that I actually happen to like – because, hey, they’re good. A reader sent over a few song recommendations for some deep-fried country music. Now, I realise that to most people it must seem extremely weird that a...
by Didact | Jul 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
The current Hungarian foreign minister, a reasonably well-built, bespectacled, cleft-chinned chap by the name of Mr. Peter Szijjarto, has come to my attention recently for his extremely satisfying beat-downs of liberal Western “journalists” and...
by Didact | Jul 21, 2018 | Christianity, Uncategorized
It is pretty unusual to hear a Muslim – let alone an Arab Muslim – telling the truth about the fact that Islam has been nothing short of a disaster for Mankind in general and the West in particular – but here is one saying pretty much exactly...
by Didact | Jul 8, 2018 | Christianity, Uncategorized
The Hagia Sophia at night As I mentioned a few times recently, I spent most of last week in Istanbul, Turkey. It was an… instructive trip, in several different ways. Here are my thoughts about what I observed of the city, the people, the architecture, and...
by Didact | Jun 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
(Well, and from Moscow too, obviously, but proportionally fewer of those because, well, I’ve been to Russia before. The difference between the pictures of Moscow in October and the ones from June is that, basically, Moscow looks bloody amazing in summer.)...
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