“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.”
About a week ago, the Neo-Tsar held a marathon, and magisterial, four-hour press conference in which he addressed both the Russian and international press, and also answered a wide range of questions from his own citizens. The point of this event was to provide a...
Let’s see: it’s dark and grey outside, I have a list of things to do longer than my arm, yet my motivation to do them is pretty much zero, and there is this rather odd stench of depression and failure in the air whenever I go outside. (This is also known...
13 Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution,[b] whether it be to the emperor[c] as supreme, 14 or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. 15 For this...
Friends, the time has come for another Ask Didact Anything brain-dump. This instalment addresses a wide range of reader questions, starting with a fascinating article sent to me by a reader, and continuing on through various points of interest raised by members...
Yes, I know, this edition is late. What can I say – it was a STUPIDLY busy week. I was literally travelling across, down, and back up the country, and by the time I got to about 4pm on Friday, I just said, “sod it”, and passed out on the couch for a...
I realise I am quite late to the party here, but the (relatively) recent publication of two long-form articles in The Washington Compost is worth examining a little. These days, the ONLY good reason to read The Jeff Bezos Blog is to get an understanding of what Clown...
7am?!? I should BE so lucky on a Monday morning… I had to wake up at the asscrack of dawn – actually, where I live, the Sun didn’t even have the decency to show the hell UP until something like 0800 – to make my way to a client site. And the...
19 Therefore, brothers,[c] since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we...
As I may have said a few times before, there are days which seem to take years to pass, and then there are years which seem to pass in days. This year, 2023, certainly seems like the latter. We are already just three weeks away from the end of the year, and we are...
Those of a certain age may remember a “musical act” called “Insane Clown Posse”, whose fans were basically asshats calling themselves “Juggalos”. They were like Slipknot fans, but without even that extremely low level of class or...
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