“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.”

Friday T&A: Crash and Burn Edition

Friday T&A: Crash and Burn Edition

This week has certainly been eventful in the world of geopolitics. Prime Minister Chucky is out, as I pointed out yesterday, after a brief, disastrous, and totally ignominious reign that saw the fastest collapse ever observed in a British government. The result is a...
Guest Post: Classroom cheat codes by The Male Brain

Guest Post: Classroom cheat codes by The Male Brain

I am honoured to present another great guest post by our good friend, The Male Brain, who has very kindly taken it upon himself to translate from the original Hebrew an article about why universities and schools permit students to cheat. Indeed, they actually NEED...
Lettuce prey

Lettuce prey

As you have no doubt heard by now, Prime Minister Chucky, aka Liz Truss, is no longer in charge of PommieBastardLande. She resigned earlier today, to the surprise of just about nobody, after spending just six weeks in office. That makes her the shortest-tenured Prime...
Domain Query: Rise of the Machines

Domain Query: Rise of the Machines

In this latest Domain Query, I address a rather interesting question from LRFotS Randale6 that touches on the thorny and tricky issue of thinking machines and artificial intelligence, while referencing the greatest sci-fi novel ever written. Here’s the...
Monday morning with David Ben-Gurion

Monday morning with David Ben-Gurion

The weekend is always just way too damn short. It is ESPECIALLY too damn short if you cook a really nice steak dinner (with sweet potato fries) and then end up drinking a bit too much red wine, go to bed early, yet you then find yourself rudely awoken at 3am by noisy...
Sunday Scripture: Love Your Neighbour As Yourself

Sunday Scripture: Love Your Neighbour As Yourself

9 “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. 10 And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You...
Friday T&A: Trollfest Edition

Friday T&A: Trollfest Edition

If the events of the past few days have proven anything, it is that toadying up to Clown Prince Zarnulf of Hy-Bandera is hazardous to a politician’s career prospects. The Curse of the Dummy continues to manifest itself, as the citizens of the thoroughly...
Tour de force

Tour de force

Dr. James Tour’s name should be fairly familiar to regular readers of this site. I have mentioned him a number of times before, particularly with respect to his seminal presentation about the known problems with Origin-of-Life (OoL) research. Dr. Tour is a...
The SANKSHUNS are highly effective

The SANKSHUNS are highly effective

I have been trying to tell just about anyone with sense enough to listen, since pretty much the middle of April, that the SANKSHUNS against those damned ROOOOOOOOSKEEES!!!, are actually useless at best and extremely counterproductive at worst. In reality, the Western...
Monday morning finding out

Monday morning finding out

Here we go again – Monday, the day of the week when we roll out of bed groaning because we didn’t get anywhere near enough sleep, and were rudely jolted out of an extremely pleasant dream involving some random mostly plastic Instathot and a giant...