“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.”
This week’s entry into everyone’s favourite series is unfortunately late again, though I do have a kind-of-sort-of good excuse. Basically, I was playing free therapist to several different people, and that chewed up much of my time for the past three days....
I am very pleased to present another guest post by our good friend, Dawn Pine, who wrote in with a translation of an article appearing in Israeli media by a chap named Nitsan Saddan. The article talks extensively about the Russian use of missiles in the Special...
I gather there is an old saying in military circles that goes something like: “amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics, generals talk strategy”. This is precisely why getting caught up in the tactical minutiae and “war porn” of the...
Ah, Monday, our old enemy. We meet again at last. Actually, this day just exists to remind us how short the weekends are, and how little time there is to rest and recover from the travails of the previous week. Certainly I could have used an extra three or four hours...
18 Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2 Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Zipporah,...
LRFotS Dire Badger is a chap with whom many of us are familiar. He’s been a regular at both this site and its predecessor, the old Didact’s Reach blog, for many years. Though he rarely comments nowadays, he always has something interesting to say. He wrote...
Things have been unreasonably quiet around here at Didactic Mind for entirely mundane reasons – namely, yer very ‘eavy, very ‘umble servant has been run off ‘is feet with work and other things. You know things are busy for me when I’m...
Northrop Grumman unveiled the B-21 Raider just over a week ago. Based on what I have seen of it thus far, it is likely to be the latest entry in the American Military-Industrial Complex’s very lengthy catalogue of hugely expensive and largely ineffective weapons...
Well, here we are again, after far too short a weekend and far too little real R&R. I had to spend some of yesterday working, as there never really seems to be enough time to get things done during the week, but that’s OK – things will be pretty...
34 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated...
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