“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.”
May the 4th came and went, and like most of you, I honestly could not be arsed to bother with it. There was a time, between the ages of 12 and about 27, when I was a rabid STAR WARS fan – I particularly loved the novels, and would read through them voraciously....
It really just does not matter how long the weekend is – Monday always comes along to pee in the punchbowl. If, like most of the world, May 1st is a holiday for you, then today isn’t so bad – but if you are in Amerikhastan, it isn’t one, as far...
34 Then Elihu answered and said: 2 “Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;3 for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.4 Let us choose what is...
Everyone knows by now about how Fox News fired #BasedTucker, because reasons. Precisely what those reasons are, is still a bit murky, because no one at Fox is letting on, but it is not difficult to draw some basic conclusions using open-source data and a modicum of...
Yes, I know, today is not actually Friday. A combination of a busy schedule and sheer laziness has severely cramped my writing this week, even though events have moved forward at an extremely fast pace. It can’t really be helped – as one of you pointed out...
Americans have a great many splendid qualities, as I have said many times. I regard my time in the US as a great gift, and am very grateful for the fact that the American people basically left me alone to pursue my own ends in comfort and security. America is –...
This post is way late, but that is probably not a bad thing today. That is because, late in the day (my time, anyway), I heard the news that sent shockwaves throughout the media and political spheres. FOX News, in an apparent attempt to commit hara-kiri, has fired...
4 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the...
Travelling through the West, as I have done repeatedly over the last few years, one gets a distinct sense that things are falling apart at increasingly high speed. You don’t need me to tell you this, of course – you can see it with your own two eyes....
Let us get one thing out of the way immediately: I am perfectly aware of the rich irony involved in telling people not to waste their time on useless things, when this very website specialises in helping people get through Mondays with a deluge of information, and...
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