by Didact | Oct 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
As if the flu wasn’t bad enough, now we have an actual haemorrhagic fever imported straight from Africa to deal with: Schoolchildren in Texas may be at risk from Ebola today after five children who attend four different Dallas schools came in close contact with...
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 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
Yes, this is fairly normal in Israel. Personally I think the Tavor TAR-21 might be better suited for buying, uh, feminine hygiene products, though- don’t you agree? The esteemed Col. Tom Kratman published a trilogy of articles recently exploring some interesting...
by Didact | Sep 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
There is no depth to which the Unionists of the (possibly soon to be dis-)United Kingdom will not stoop in order to scare the people of Scotland into staying in the Union: Like Boris Johnson, my sense is that Scotland will eventually vote no. But what a kerfuffle we...
by Didact | Aug 30, 2014 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
… are bloody well going to stay single, judging by what follows. Wanted: Naive, easily bamboozled men willing to put up with massive amounts of female nonsense for the privilege of maybe being able to nail a really hot piece of Brazilian ass once in a...
by Didact | Aug 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Lord but it is good to be back home. (Going back to work and having my extroverted colleague yapping in my ear all the time, not so much…) Yet I cannot help but feel a wrenching sense of loss at having left Eretz Israel. I have said it before, and now I...
by Didact | Aug 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
The first thing that strikes you about Israel when you get off the plane is how green everything is. Taking the bus from Ben Gurion Airport to the place where we were staying, I vividly remember staring out the window in stunned fascination at the...
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
I’m off for about 10 days to travel. I’m not telling where I’m going (yet), but suffice to say that this is a trip that I have been wanting to make for quite literally half my life. Pictures, stories, and tales of wine and song to follow when I get...
by Didact | Jul 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I was 14, I read two books that changed my thinking and my life forever. The first was a novel, based on real events, called Exodus, by one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers, Leon Uris. It provided a fictionalised, but largely accurate, account of the...
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