“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.”

Sunday Scripture: The People Confess Their Sin

Sunday Scripture: The People Confess Their Sin

10 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly. 2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons...
BioWas/Were

BioWas/Were

Rejoice, gamerchuds! Bioware is DEAD!!! There are plenty of people who think this is a Very Bad Thing, and you will find lots of posts on social media sites, expressing their shock and horror that the studio which produced so many great games from all those years ago,...
Friday T&A: Lob Spike Smash Edition

Friday T&A: Lob Spike Smash Edition

Just a quick one for today, chaps – it has been a busy week, followed by a quiet weekend spent slaughtering Grubs in Gears of War: Ultimate Edition – y’all might remember it as the remaster, back when The Coalition actually knew how to do good...
Why we cannot stop poking the Bear

Why we cannot stop poking the Bear

LRFotS Abeer Yusless provided an interesting musing to my recent poast, about how woefully and inadequately prepared the Western military leadership class is for an actual, really-for-real shooting war with the ROOSKEES: It’s a shame that so many in the west feel the...
Monday morning song and dance routine

Monday morning song and dance routine

Whoever it was that said the four-day work week increases employee satisfaction without compromising productivity, may have been onto something, because I think we can all agree that the two-day weekend is way too damn short. You’ve just about gotten used to the...
Sunday Scripture: The People Confess Their Sin

Sunday Scripture: Josiah’s Reforms

23 Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him. 2 And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people,...
A weak mean has brought extremely hard times

A weak mean has brought extremely hard times

We all know that old saying about what I will call – for lack of a better term – “the cycle of times”. It is a simple and effective encapsulation of well-received and time-tested wisdom: Looking at how Ornj Boi has gone about things in his second term, I am forced to...
Friday T&A: Word to the Weiss Edition

Friday T&A: Word to the Weiss Edition

The clown car crash that is the Drumpf White House continues, with the hiring and firing, in record time, of the latest Press Secretary. It is amusing, in a rather sordid way, though the internal chaos in the current Administration really just reflects how disjointed...
When MBAs play soldier

When MBAs play soldier

Alexus Grynkewich is not exactly a household name for most people. Nor should he be. He is the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, effectively the second highest-ranking military officer in the entire NATO structure. That is a post once held by no less a person than...