Gadflies- I am unashamedly using certain school assignments to double as posts on the rather silent site of late. I used to do history segments, now I am doing literary critique and opinion peices. Where did I go wrong. Horatius, Romulus, where are you! The following is a analysis of the argument proffered by a [...]
Some of you loyal Gadflies out there, having seen the results of my last assault upon “Liberal” education may be surprised to see me leveling my sword at the dragon once again. Some of you may not. But I resent being used as a sponge, being used by socialist professors who determine the curriculum at [...]
Dear Gadflies My mandatory English 102 class consists mainly of reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s despicable “Nickel and Dimed”. The author is an ACORN activist, feminist, and probable communist who spent several months doing “undercover” reporting on the dire conditions of the minimum wage worker. If any of you decide you REALLY have nothing better to do, [...]
I realize it has been a goodly stretch of time since I bored you all with one of my “History of the Day” segments, and I thought that today would be a grand day to make you suffer again. Everyone but Fabius and El Cid, that is. On a slightly more serious note, I hope [...]
I speak to you today of more battles and births, with hopefully more meat for the not quite so historically inclined. April holds much of signifigance in the story of the world, as Fabius is no doubt aware, due to the singular catastrophic nature of his own birthday. But the rest of the month is [...]
March 29th holds too many battles for a military history nut like myself, so I will grace you with brief outlines, including some air war events that will have Fabius salivating like Erasmus over a chicken-fried steak. Before I get in a lather over these tidbits, however, let us wish a happy birthday to Carlo [...]
I Faith flickers at the edge of Eden, And praying pauses, bare breath bent To seconds, stolen slowly from the Fates Who spin, spun, span the ages Or with the noonday nightmare, cut the cord. In side-streets struck from Dante’s dream And alleys, acrid with the slayer’s smoke Or hellish houses, drawn from devil-dust, The [...]
When you look upon your wayward world The wilderness your will has woven, In what wonder will you wander? What sacrifice of sacrament and sanity… To circumstance and satiety, For the same-song sound and a sepulcher Of one with wily Wormwood. Did you accede in your agony, Become the antipodes of action and ardor And [...]
I again come before you, gentlemen, with the alacrity of someone who has neglected his civic duty in the pursuit of vainer things. But without further prostrations or protestations, allow me to present the History of the Day. In Roman affairs, on this day in 421, Constantius III became co-emperor of the Western Empire. Honorius [...]
I know this isn’t supposed to be a news repost site, but this was the first thing I saw when I turned on the computer a few minutes ago. Enjoy… And all this time I never knew my ACOG was made by Trijicon/Umbranox and blessed by the KJV. -Nicephoras
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