by Didact | Dec 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
I got back last weekend from a week in Calcutta. That particular time of year, around about mid-December, is always considered particularly “auspicious” for weddings (don’t ask me why, I don’t understand pagan festival timings very well),...
by Didact | Dec 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
I just got back this morning from a trip to the old country to visit my extended family. It was, without question, the single most painful journey I’ve ever undertaken, for a number of reasons. At a certain point in your life, people important to you from your...
by Didact | Dec 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
It looks like the M(A)ndrosphere is growing into a real, living phenomenon now. There was Roosh’s event in D.C. last year, the Las Vegas Meetup of Doom (apparently no one who went to it can quite remember everything that happened in the same order,...
by Didact | Dec 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Lord, but it is good to be home at last. I landed this morning after a looooong trip over from the States and am now thoroughly enjoying a quiet day spent at home with my dear mum, before we both fly out again tonight to meet my dad. Suffice to say that after a...
by Didact | Sep 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s always refreshing to travel from the North to the South in this country, particularly if you’ve been reading The South Was Right! by the Kennedy brothers in the meantime. Right now I’m sitting in a hotel room near San Antonio after seeing a...
by Didact | Aug 22, 2013 | Christianity, Uncategorized
Whenever I go to London, I make a point of visiting the Tate Britain. This, even more than the British Museum, is probably my favourite place in the entire city, not least because of its collection of works by William Blake and J.M.W. Turner. And when I am at the Tate...
by Didact | Apr 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Elusive Wapiti wrote recently about the consequences of entering into marital “bliss” without any game: In sum, my friend and I made several mistakes in the run-up to our marriages and in the years after we were married, mistakes that eventually proved...
by Didact | Apr 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
I spent the past few days in London, catching up with some very dear old friends, and attending the wedding of one of those friends. (Hence the total lack of new material over the past week.) My trip back to my old stomping grounds rammed home a few things- the...
by Didact | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
As one of the world’s most open economies is beginning to discover: Singapore may well serve as a case study for what happens when leaders try to offset slowing economic growth with immigration and increased birth rates. There are lessons that Japan or Italy...
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...
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