“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 Didact’s Best Albums of 2022

The Didact’s Best Albums of 2022

This year was a pretty big one for new music, judging by what I saw of various bands that I follow across YouTube, but oddly enough, I didn’t really listen to a whole lot of new metal albums. I tend to be pretty snobbish when it comes to metal, mostly because I...
The Didact’s Best Books of 2022

The Didact’s Best Books of 2022

My reading definitely collapsed quite badly in the past year as well – I actually spend much more of my time these days reading blog posts, articles, and various alternative news aggregator sites, rather than actual books. I also spent an inordinate amount of...
Friday T&A: Last Call Edition

Friday T&A: Last Call Edition

Well, here we are at last, the very final days of 2022. I will be honest – there were a number of points throughout this year when I thought there was a real chance we would not see the New Year, but here we are nonetheless. The world is still here, and despite...
MAD games with crazy people

MAD games with crazy people

The doctrine of mutual assured destruction, or MAD for short, has often been referred to in very derogatory terms as something you would literally have to be crazy to believe in. (I have also seen the “M” term in the acronym as “massive”...
When manoeuvre meets MOSSMOUSE

When manoeuvre meets MOSSMOUSE

As I have pointed out several times over the past 10 months, since pretty much the beginning of the Russian Special Military Operation in 404 – Country Not Found, the gulf between the Western/Ukrainian war of perception, and the Russian war of reality, is...
Monday morning turkey & Tums

Monday morning turkey & Tums

Happy Christmas, everyone, and I hope you enjoyed your evening feast, without getting into any fistfights between your various relatives over politics, religion, or vaxx-passes. For the rest of you – well, it’s Boxing Day in PommieBastardLande, and if you...
Didactic Mind, Ep 106: One Bright Star

Didactic Mind, Ep 106: One Bright Star

The Didactic Mind podcast is back with a Christmas special! Happy Christmas to all of you, and may the Lord’s blessings be with you, each and every one. Today I discuss the meaning of Christmas, in terms of the values of peace, joy, compassion, forgiveness,...
Sunday Scripture: The Birth of Jesus Christ

Sunday Scripture: The Birth of Jesus Christ

2 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee,...
‘Tis the season…

‘Tis the season…

… to lift a merry middle finger to political correctness, and say exactly what we think and what we mean – which is: HAPPY CHRISTMAS. None of that namby-pamby politically correct “Season’s Greetings” pigswill, none of that diverse...
Friday T&A: Starlight Edition

Friday T&A: Starlight Edition

Just a couple more days, and we get to the very best day of the year. Christmas is almost upon us – for me, always a truly special and wonderful day. Every year when I was a child, we would go to the old country to spend that time with my grandparents and...