“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.”

In which severe laziness strikes

Christmas this year was memorable almost entirely for the wrong reasons, none of which I intend to go into in detail here, and that fact, combined with a lack of sleep and a decidedly low level of motivation to do any real writing, has resulted in a general...

Happy Christmas

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to...

Monday morning Christmas carols

Oh nuts, it’s Mon – What’s that you say? “Didact, cheer up, it’s Christmas Eve!” Wa-hey, you’re right! That means that tomorrow is the single best day of the year. And I have to say, I’m truly chuffed to bits about...

Pie in the media’s face

British comedian Jonathan Pie – a man of the Left if there ever was one – has evidently broken ranks with the rest of the loonies among the Funny People (Lord, forgive me my redundancies) and decided that a smidgen of self-awareness and humility is a Good...

Friday T&A: Jingle Bells Edition

There are only 4 more days to go until Christmas, and I am definitely getting into the spirit of the day. Here in [redacted], it’s bloody cold, snowing constantly, and grey – and if I look out the window past the metro line and the concrete and glass...

Domain Query: Who gnu?

Longtime reader Dire Badger had a quite pithy comment to add to Monday’s post, concerning the Instathot of the Week, Sahara Ray: Nice body, but her face looks like a gnu. Being of an inquisitive nature myself, I figured I had to put my faithful...

A voice of reason

Bruce “THE VOICE OF YAHWEH” Dickinson, also known as the singer of THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME (that is to say, IRON MAIDEN), has some rather sensible and intelligent things to say about the value of Brexit: Reading through the comments that other...

Domain Query: Death by squats

Our friendly neighbourhood Gentleman Adventurer had some very interesting points to make about the need, or lack thereof, to do squats every single workout in his regular Sunday lifting thread: Now my initial reaction to this was a hearty rebuttal with moderate...

Monday morning death by divorce

Monday. Bugger. Well, look on the bright side: if you are reading this, you are not waking up on a Monday morning in North Korea. Also – consider yourself lucky that you are not this guy: A Russian billionaire embroiled in Britain’s costliest divorce has...