Monday morning at the Gates of Fire
Just about every installation of the Great Mondaydact Browser Mulcher series opens with yer very 'eavy, very 'umble servant bitching about how horrid Monday is, and then promising to make it all...
The sequel we wanted and needed
As I said to subscribers of my Telegram channel yesterday in my (more or less) daily update, I went to see Top Gun Maverick yesterday. And I'm not going to mess about: it's EPIC. Whatever voodoo...
Sunday Scripture: The Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath
16 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the...
Friday T&A: Fan Service Edition
As we approach Day 100 of the Russian Special Military Operation in Banderastan (aka 404-Land), wherein "them damn Rooskis!!!" stormed in to demilitarise, de-Nazify, and defang the most corrupt and...
The failure of the NEW new economics
Decades ago (almost literally, by now), when Yer Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble Servant were a wee lad busily frittering away his misspent yoot in university in Central Big Shitty, I was studying...
If you give a mouse a Ukie…
There has been an awful lot of innarwebz traffic over the past few days about a story of a Ukrainian refugee who fled her war-torn country and was taken in by a family over in West Yorkshire. It is...
Monday morning gun-fu fighting
We all know that Mondays are absolutely miserable, and they are about 20x more miserable when you have to spend an hour on hold with your bank - as I did, today. Honestly, one of the best things...
Sunday Scripture: The Law and Sin
7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said,...
Domain Query: Outside In
LRFotS Randale6 had an interesting and detailed set of questions for me about being a "stranger in a strange land", as it were, when looking at where to go, where to live, and how to adapt to a...
Friday T&A: Saddling the Horsemen Edition
Brothers, the past week has shown us all that, no matter how stupid, venal, incompetent, corrupt, and downright crazy we think our leaders are, they can always find ways to surprise us. In the...
Wars of perception and reality
If you have been following the Banderastan War closely - and I most assuredly have on my Telegram channel - then you will understand very clearly that there is a vast, yawning gulf between what the...

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