“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Monday morning apocalypto

Monday morning apocalypto

“Yay, it’s Monday again!!!” – said literally nobody, ever. I certainly am in no mood to say any such thing, because I’ve spent the last several days fighting some sort of weird throat infection that makes swallowing feel like trying to...
Friday T&A: Triple Threat Edition

Friday T&A: Triple Threat Edition

First, I have to apologise here for the total lack of new content after returning from vacation. I had lots of big plans for resuming things in a big way, but something about being “back” was just profoundly depressing. A Western mind can perhaps more...
Monday morning truth-telling

Monday morning truth-telling

The Didactic Mind Big Bad Brutal Browser Buster is back, boys! And holy heck do we have a LOT of catching up to do. I am back from my (very badly needed, as it turned out) time off in Russia and Kyrgyzstan (yes, really), and I have plenty of stories to tell, which...
Sunday Scripture: Jesus Walks on the Water

Sunday Scripture: Jesus Walks on the Water

22 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 23 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was...
“Didact is unavailable at the moment…”

“Didact is unavailable at the moment…”

A number of my readers – well, OK, ONE of you – contacted me recently to ask why the hell all of the meme bombs and Didactic goodness had suddenly dried up. The short answer is, I am actually on holiday (!!!) in Russia (!!!!!!), and just got back from a...
A messy end to a strange life

A messy end to a strange life

I have refrained on commenting at any great length about the catastrophe which befell the Embraer jet owned by one Evgeniy Prigozhin two days ago, mostly because the situation was so strange and so fluid. Now the Neo-Tsar has effectively confirmed Prigozhin’s...
Friday T&A: Go East Edition

Friday T&A: Go East Edition

At last, the day has arrived. Yer very ‘eavy, very ‘umble servant is on vacation for the next two weeks, heading over to the eastern parts of the world – back to Eastern Europe, and then on to kind-of-sort-of Central Asia. It is the first serious...
Didactic Mind, Ep 112: The Itchy Red Blanket

Didactic Mind, Ep 112: The Itchy Red Blanket

This episode of Didactic Mind is all about the misguided and very foolish return of Stalinism as an in-vogue political and social philosophy. This all came about because of the recent appearance by one Jackson Hinkle on Piers Morgan’s show (Lord,...
Monday morning CrossFarts

Monday morning CrossFarts

“Lord, let Monday be over quickly, without serious adverse events, and a minimum of idiocy.” Such is the prayer we all utter, in some form or another, more or less, before the workday starts after a quiet and relaxed weekend. Unfortunately, things rarely...
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