Gone full potato pancake
The term, "blin", in Russian, means "pancake". It is also synonymous with a mild Russian swear word that, more or less, translates as "dammit", or "crap". (As opposed to говно or черт, which...
Monday morning manny mauling
Ah, Monday. Our old enemy. We meet again. And, if you're anything like me, you tend to start your Mondays having to deal with the Dreaded Spawn of Billzebub - POWERPOINT. I swear, if I could pay...
Sunday Scripture: The Ruler to Be Born in Bethlehem
The prophecy of Micah of Moresheth in the days of the kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah - the first two of whom were profoundly evil and wicked kings of Judah, but the third of whom was a righteous...
Scratch-a-Nazi
It has been about a week since Gonzalo Lira, once known on TEH YOOTOOBZ as "Coach Red Pill", for his involvement with the Manosphere movement, was arrested again by the Ukrainian SBU. Since then, to...
Friday T&A: Pea-Souper Edition
The past day or so has been quite chaotic in terms of Banderastan War news. For a few hours yesterday, there was all kinds of panic all over Russian Telegram channels about a major Ukrainian assault...
С праздником День Победы!
Today marks the 78th anniversary of the day on which the USSR declared victory over Nazi Germany, having fought all the way back from the very brink of defeat, to the storming of Berlin. It is an...
Monday morning VD
No, the headline does not mean quite what you think it does. It is in fact a reference to VICTORY DAY - which for Europeans and Americans is May 8th, and for Russians is May 9th. For the latter,...
Sunday Scripture: The Lord Challenges Job
This is the bit of the Book of Job where His Hugeness weighs in, finally, after much debate and discussion between Job and his three friends. It is a fascinating exchange between the Lord of...
Domain Query: Ask Didact Anything Day #2
Gentlemen! We just concluded another round of Ask Didact Anything Day on my Telegram channel, which is your chance as a member of the community (such as it is) to ask questions to yer very 'eavy,...
Friday T&A: Sinko the Mayo Edition
Back when I was living Stateside, in a part of the East Coast with a fairly substantial Hispanic population (in the Heights area, not downtown where I was), May the 5th was always this weird...
May the Farce be with you
May the 4th came and went, and like most of you, I honestly could not be arsed to bother with it. There was a time, between the ages of 12 and about 27, when I was a rabid STAR WARS fan - I...

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