“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 dino-riding

Monday morning dino-riding

Well, there goes the weekend, again. On the minus side, it was, of course, WAY too damn short. On the plus side, spring is DEFINITELY here, and that is my absolute favourite season of the year. It is a time of renewal and growth, where the days are getting longer, the...
International Save-a-Ginger Day

International Save-a-Ginger Day

Today is apparently the single biggest excuse for going out and getting absolutely HAMMERED, because it is St. Patrick’s Day. From what I gather, this is an historical celebration of the death of the eponymous saint, who arrived on the Emerald Isle some 1600...
Didactic Mind, Ep 117: The Burning of Rome

Didactic Mind, Ep 117: The Burning of Rome

The Didactic Mind podcast is FINALLY back, after a long hiatus due to… well, sheer laziness, mostly, and a real lack of desire to talk about much of the craziness around us. Nonetheless, recent events in the West and Russia have made a podcast necessary to...
Friday T&A: The Ides of March Edition

Friday T&A: The Ides of March Edition

As I mentioned yesterday, this particular stretch of the year is great for oddball made-up holidays. Today is, of course, Caesar Stabbification Day, in which the legendary Roman general and dictator failed to heed the words of the soothsayer, and went to the Senate to...
Hot pi

Hot pi

This stretch of the year, from very roughly March to April 5th, is perhaps the most momentous of any when it comes to making up excuses to celebrate things. We have International Women’s Day on March 8th; Pi Day on March 14th; Caesar Stabbification Day on March...
Monday morning towel and travel

Monday morning towel and travel

Well, it’s Monday again, and honestly, after just a few hours of this crap, I’m DONE for the day. It is nothing particularly bad, but when you have dreary weather, colleagues who can’t get their shit together, and looming project deadlines, it all...
Guest Post: An Agnostic takes on the Supernatural

Guest Post: An Agnostic takes on the Supernatural

I am most pleased to present another compelling and thought-provoking guest post from LRFotS Randale6, who is evidently wrestling with the question of what is true, and who, among the various world religions, is right and correct. As such, he has written what is...
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When the announcement came through a couple of days ago that one Victoria Nuland was resigning from her post as some high muckety-muck in the State Department, most of the sane world celebrated. Fair warning to all reading this: I am NOT going to mince words today....