“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: 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: A Worker Approved by God

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...
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: A Worker Approved by God

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...