“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.”

Friday T&A: Locke and Kay Edition

Friday T&A: Locke and Kay Edition

Gentlemen, are you familiar with the works of a certain John Locke? He was one of the premier English philosophers of his day, and was highly influential upon the Founding Fathers of the American Republic. He was well known for a number of ideas that he either came up...
Guest appearance on the JJ Podcast

Guest appearance on the JJ Podcast

This Sunday I spoke with an old friend and longtime reader, JohnC911. He had asked me to make another guest appearance on his podcast, and I was of course very happy to oblige. We spoke for about 2hrs on a wide variety of topics, and honestly we probably could have...
Monday morning with Lloyd Bochner

Monday morning with Lloyd Bochner

As you can probably tell by the fact that this post is, oh, about 12 hours late, it’s been a hellacious Monday for me. I’ve been literally too busy and anxious to sleep properly. But, the show must go on, so here we are. I got all of the nonsense out of...
Sunday Scripture: The Soul Who Sins Shall Die

Sunday Scripture: The Soul Who Sins Shall Die

This week’s selection from Holy Writ comes courtesy of our good friend, The Male Brain, from the Book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament. A lot of “Christians” seem to think that the vengeful, wrathful God of the Old Testament is somehow different from...
Checkmating the Turducken

Checkmating the Turducken

The hottest defence news of the past week has been the unveiling of Russia’s new single-engine fighter jet, the Sukhoi-75 Checkmate. I haven’t commented on it yet, simply because there was a lot of hype surrounding it and it only seems to have died down...
Friday T&A: Underworked and Overpaid Edition

Friday T&A: Underworked and Overpaid Edition

Once more, it has been one HELL of a long week. I’ve been staring at SQL code until my eyeballs ache, and I have to say, it’s not actually that much fun. SQL can do a LOT, but when you’re used to using more flexible languages like R or C++, where you...
The Lioness of London

The Lioness of London

Few people, if any, who do not watch Christian apologetics videos on TEH YOOTOOBZ know the first thing about a woman named Hatun Tash. She is a Christian convert from Islam who gave her life to Jesus Christ and has since spent her life evangelising Muslims. In fact,...
Monday morning by the power of Greyskull

Monday morning by the power of Greyskull

Boys, I am really not feeling the energy today. I’m tired, it’s humid as F**K outside, and I just want to go take a nap. Putting together this massive fustercluck of a Great Mondaydact Browser Smasher was NOT easy, let me tell you. Nonetheless, here we...
Guest appearance on the JJ Podcast

Didactic Mind, Ep 81: There Is No Running

The Didactic Mind podcast is BACK!!! And for this week’s episode – the first in 2 months – I have a highly relevant series of topics lined up to discuss, including: What it is like to have the Coof, or something like it;How to confront the lies of...
Gingervitis treatment

Gingervitis treatment

This one goes out to Dire Badger and all of my other readers who suffer from severe gingervitis – it consists of redheaded green-eyed (I think) Russian guitarist Alyona Vargasova doing her thing: OK, yeah, she’s GOOD. And very obviously classically...