“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.”
I have refrained on commenting at any great length about the catastrophe which befell the Embraer jet owned by one Evgeniy Prigozhin two days ago, mostly because the situation was so strange and so fluid. Now the Neo-Tsar has effectively confirmed Prigozhin’s...
At last, the day has arrived. Yer very ‘eavy, very ‘umble servant is on vacation for the next two weeks, heading over to the eastern parts of the world – back to Eastern Europe, and then on to kind-of-sort-of Central Asia. It is the first serious...
This episode of Didactic Mind is all about the misguided and very foolish return of Stalinism as an in-vogue political and social philosophy. This all came about because of the recent appearance by one Jackson Hinkle on Piers Morgan’s show (Lord,...
“Lord, let Monday be over quickly, without serious adverse events, and a minimum of idiocy.” Such is the prayer we all utter, in some form or another, more or less, before the workday starts after a quiet and relaxed weekend. Unfortunately, things rarely...
6 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom; 2 and over them three high officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no...
As noted earlier this week in the Great Mondaydact Browser Slayer, the long read of the week was an excellent bit of analysis on the decline, fall, and collapse of the Western world by Gaius Baltar, featured at Larry Johnson’s SONAR21 blog. As Mr. Baltar pointed...
Gentlemen, if you have not seen the epic ensemble-cast drama, Yellowstone, may I say, I HIGHLY recommend it. The series follows the Dutton family, who own supposedly the largest ranch in the FUSA – something on the order of 200,000 acres, which I gather is...
Gentlemen, has anyone here ever heard of a game called StarCraft? One or two of you, right? Yeah. It was (and is) KIND OF A BIG DEAL, because it revolutionised strategy gaming, all the way back in 1998, and essentially made Blizzard the powerhouse that it is today. (I...
The weekend went by way too damn fast, and now we are back to Monday – a most MISERABLE Monday where I am, unfortunately, given it has been bucketing down with rain all bloody day long. Nonetheless, the Great Mondaydact Browser Bowser (not a typo) is here to...
10 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict.[a] And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision. 2 In those...
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