“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.”

Send them all home

Send them all home

Chaps, do you remember that whole weird series of episodes of what we might call a White Trash Soap Opera, suitably titled Yorkshire Dales or some such, involving a father-of-two who took in a Ukrainian refugee and then ended up dumping his not-wife’s ass in...
Losing battles to win wars

Losing battles to win wars

The past five days or so have been rather bewildering ones for those of us following developments in the 404 War. Starting on September 9th, basically, the Ukrainians launched a major counteroffensive designed to take back territory in the Kharkov region in the...
Monday morning Crown and Ring

Monday morning Crown and Ring

Monday is back with a vengeance, and I for one am definitely feeling it. My Sunday workouts involve maxing out the weight on squats and deadlifts, and the older I get, the longer it takes to recover from that kind of a workout. On top of which, the mood in some parts...
The twenty-one year emergency

The twenty-one year emergency

You all know what today is. You all remember where you were, 21 years ago today. Think about that span of time carefully. If your child was born in that year, that same child would already have passed the ages of maturity for driving, voting, and drinking in the...
Sunday Scripture: A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus

Sunday Scripture: A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus

2 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men,[a] who will be able to teach others also. 3 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ...
Friday T&A: Rainbow Bridges Edition

Friday T&A: Rainbow Bridges Edition

This has unquestionably been a difficult week for my friends in PommieBastardLande. The death of Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, has rocked the nation, but it does not come as any great surprise. Let’s be honest – once you hit your 90s, every day is basically a...
She did her duty

She did her duty

As you have all seen by now, Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth II, has died. She was 96 years old, and apparently died surrounded by pretty much the entire Royal Family. She was the longest-reigning monarch in British history, living through no less than FIFTEEN...
A study in ticket sales

A study in ticket sales

For those of you who don’t bother to keep up with politics in the Balkans – which is most of us, self very much included – then the whole kerfuffle between Serbia and the bit of the country that NATO illegally broke away from it by force and occupied...
The unmaking of the Self-Made Man

The unmaking of the Self-Made Man

This post likely isn’t what you thought it was when you opened it up. It is actually about a butch lesbian named Norah Vincent, whose name may be familiar to some of you. Nearly 20 years ago, she conducted a rather bold experiment in which she decided to live as...
We wuz Alves ‘n’ shiet!

We wuz Alves ‘n’ shiet!

Amazog’s The Lhurrd of the Rangz has been out for a couple of days now (apparently), and like most of you, I just couldn’t give a toss. We’ve all got better things to do than watch this pile of steaming dogshit created by people who know nothing...