When REKTallica had a real drummer
For years, I have been VERY harsh about one Larzzzz Ulrich, founder, drummer, and leader of Metallica - a band that I consider to be hugely overhyped and overrated. That being said, there was a...
Monday morning Argy-bargy
Well, the holidays were fun while they lasted - which did not feel like anywhere NEAR long enough. That might have to do with the fact that, for me at least, a LARGE part of those holidays coincided...
Sunday Scripture: The Creation of the World
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was...
Didactic Mind, Ep 121: A Time For Renewal
The very first podcast of 2025 is up, in which I talk through some of the lessons learned in the preceding year, and some of the possible outcomes these lessons will dictate in the current one. I...
Friday T&A: Agent Natasha Edition
We are barely three days into 2025, and already it is shaping up to be a most consequential and probably crazy year - crazier, if anything, than the past three combined. I certainly hope I am wrong...
An open letter to Elon Musk on the H-1B
The following is an open letter to Elon Musk, on the subject of the H-1B visa, which has stirred up a considerable, very noisy, and somewhat profane debate on X. Mr. Musk posted some, shall we say,...
The Best of Friday T&A 2024
We have successfully killed off another year, and what a bonkers year it was. While poasting for this most beloved series of the site was rather more constrained than I would have liked - due in...
Repoast: The Ten Commandments of the Iron God
As we have successfully killed off another year, and we are now all struggling to return to normal after the Christmas season of traditional overeating and overindulgence, it is time for us to greet...
Friday T&A: Final Flight Edition
Here we are at last, the very last instalment of this much-loved series - for the year of 2024, anyway. Given how difficult it is getting to find natural and attractive talent, even among the Slavic...
The image of the invisible God
Happy Christmas, brothers and sisters. May the peace and blessings of Our Lord be with you and your loved ones on this most holy and sacred of days - the day when we celebrate the Incarnation of...
Sunday Scripture: For to Us a Child is Born
9 [a] But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time...

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