“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.”

The season finale of Lvov Boat

The season finale of Lvov Boat

I am assuredly WAY behind the times on this one, but all I can say is that I have been extremely busy for weeks now, so my appetite for tabloid trash has been rather in abeyance of late. However, for those of you who have been paying attention to such things, you may...
Friday T&A: Hamilton’s Warning Edition

Friday T&A: Hamilton’s Warning Edition

I’ve been pretty much out of it most of the day, and I’m not quite sure why, but it is clear that the last few weeks of VERY hard work really took their toll. Now that a major project has successfully been completed – or at least, this phase has been...
Domain Query: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

Domain Query: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

Reader RT asked some very interesting follow-up questions on my Telegram channel to my latest Didactic Mind podcast, related to the issues of what money is, what it does, and why inflation is so evil. The follow-up questions have to do with how money came to be, what...
Monday morning Halloween hijinks

Monday morning Halloween hijinks

Here we go with another Monday. This one, though, is rather unusual, as it is Halloween today – which means, of course, the inevitable parade of children trooping outside of your house, dressed up as superheroes and cartoon characters, begging for candy. Good...
Didactic Mind, Ep 105: Modern Monetary Madness

Didactic Mind, Ep 105: Modern Monetary Madness

The Didactic Mind podcast is back, finally, with a long discussion about the rather disastrous state of modern economics. Specifically, I start by defining what money IS, and how different forms of money have evolved over time. I point out that money is absolutely...
Sunday Scripture: Let Justice Roll Down

Sunday Scripture: Let Justice Roll Down

18 Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!    Why would you have the day of the Lord?It is darkness, and not light,19     as if a man fled from a lion,    and a bear met him,or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall,    and a serpent bit him.20 Is...
Friday T&A: Cognitive Dissonance Edition

Friday T&A: Cognitive Dissonance Edition

The constant drumbeat of, frankly, insane talk about nuclear weapons and who will launch the first strike over the last couple of weeks, has gotten well and truly out of control by now. The rhetoric coming out of the West bears absolutely no relation to reality, yet...
When your coffee needs more DEUS VULT

When your coffee needs more DEUS VULT

I have been listening to a lot of both Latin and Greek hymns of late. Something about them is both very calming, yet energising, at the same time. One, in particular, is very good – it is apparently a chant from the Templar era, in Latin, and it essentially...
Monday morning drummer jokes

Monday morning drummer jokes

That photo up top really does summarise exactly what most of us look like when we are jolted out of a sound sleep involving a bathtub, two Russian Friday T&A girls, jello, an F-16, and LOTS of bubbles – oh, is that just me, then? – by the alarm clock,...
Sunday Scripture: Let Justice Roll Down

Sunday Scripture: A Worker Approved by God

14 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God[b] not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,[c] a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word...