“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.”
Now that things have settled down in and around Artyomovsk, it is worth taking a step back and looking at the numbers involved in the Bakhmut meatgrinder. I am not exaggerating when I say that the Russians quite literally called it “Operation: MEATGRINDER”...
Oy. Mondays. They are way too damn frequent, they arrive way too damn fast after the weekend, they last way too damn long, and they are way too damn noxious. Going through a Monday, especially after a very nice and restful weekend with beautiful weather, is like being...
15 The Spirit of God came[a] upon Azariah the son of Oded, 2 and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found...
Gentlemen, Bakhmut has fallen. As of yesterday, it is now Artyomovsk again. We now have official confirmation of this, straight from the horse’s mouth – so to speak. Sometime around 8pm local time yesterday, Evgeniy Prigozhin, the titular head of the...
The weekend is finally upon us, and much-needed it is, too. This week has been a busy one, at every level. Trying to keep up with events is approaching a futile exercise, almost, because things change so fast every day, particularly with respect to the Banderastan...
Many people in the West – a surprising number, given it has been more than 30 years since the Cold War ended – still believe Russians to be a dour, gruff, humourless bunch. Of course, anyone who spends more than 5 minutes around real Russians will tell you...
The term, “blin”, in Russian, means “pancake”. It is also synonymous with a mild Russian swear word that, more or less, translates as “dammit”, or “crap”. (As opposed to говно or черт, which translate much more closely...
Ah, Monday. Our old enemy. We meet again. And, if you’re anything like me, you tend to start your Mondays having to deal with the Dreaded Spawn of Billzebub – POWERPOINT. I swear, if I could pay someone a commission to just automate all of my...
The prophecy of Micah of Moresheth in the days of the kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah – the first two of whom were profoundly evil and wicked kings of Judah, but the third of whom was a righteous and just ruler who walked in the ways of the Lord....
It has been about a week since Gonzalo Lira, once known on TEH YOOTOOBZ as “Coach Red Pill”, for his involvement with the Manosphere movement, was arrested again by the Ukrainian SBU. Since then, to the best of my knowledge, we have heard very little of...
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