“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.”

“To boldly rock where no man has rocked before”

“To boldly rock where no man has rocked before”

Of all the unexpected things to happen (thus far) in 2026 – and we are only a little over halfway through the year – the idea of the legendary William Shatner, aka Captain Kirk, fronting a heavy metal band, surely is right up near the top of the “too crazy to believe”...
Dispatches from Mordor: My kingdom for a fill-up!

Dispatches from Mordor: My kingdom for a fill-up!

Longtime Readers will recall that I went on vacation back in mid-June for a couple of weeks, and I travelled specifically to Mordor, aka Russia, for that purpose. While I was there, I had the chance to observe Russia’s society, culture, and economy, in some detail,...
Friday T&A: Service Resumption Edition

Friday T&A: Service Resumption Edition

Things are slowly – VERY slowly – returning back to normal around this here patch of rants and tumbleweeds. I went straight from vacation mode to long and grinding hours at work, with virtually zero adjustment time, and that was NOT fun. Fortunately,...
And all of Hell rejoiced

And all of Hell rejoiced

When news broke on July 11th that Sen. Lindsay Graham had “died suddenly” after a “brief illness”, the first thing that came to mind for many of us surely was: IT’S ABOUT BLOODY TIME!!! It is often said that one should not speak ill of the dead. That is a concept...
Monday morning paying the reaper

Monday morning paying the reaper

We are BACK, boys! It has been roughly a month since we had one of these up, and we certainly have a lot of catching up to do. I definitely have a lot of poasts to write up – some about the absurdities confronting us these days, and others about my travels through...
The agony of deceit

The agony of deceit

Over the past week, we have seen a whole lot of noise about the supposed “peace deal” between the Epstein Coalition and Iran. The terms of that “pissdill”, to use a Russianism, are nothing short of devastating for the US-Izzraeli side that initiated a blatant act of...
Summer hiatus

Summer hiatus

Yer very ‘eavy, very ‘umble servant finally landed up in Mordor yesterday, which is where I write this to note that, for the next couple of weeks, I am officially on holiday. It is a very badly needed holiday, at that – I originally planned to head...
Monday morning extra strength espresso

Monday morning extra strength espresso

Looks like Monday is BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!!!… Yeahhhh, quoting the Uruk-hai isn’t going to work out so well today. It is, after all, rather a depressing day. We are in the middle of, as Ann Barnhardt likes to call it, (((pri DEMON th))) – think it...
Sunday Scripture: The Reading of the Law

Sunday Scripture: The Reading of the Law

9 Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the...
The MAFF ain’t MAFFin’

The MAFF ain’t MAFFin’

At the beginning of the year, Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible published a book called Probability Zero: The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution by Natural Selection. He based that book on work going back...