“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.”

Brexit or bust

I am of course a bit late to the celebrations concerning the Conservative Party’s victory in Britain on Friday. This is because of a combination of lack of time and considerable laziness on my part. People who know me, know quite well that I am basically...

Domain Query: Hinduism as power play

Reader JohnC had an interesting question for me from the Mondaydact Browser Crash for this week: Hey Didact, what are your thoughts on the Indian bill on citizenship? No Muslim can apply. The article that he references in his question can be found here, and I’m...

The Friend-Zone Anthem

For a variety of reasons I recently found myself sitting in a cafe in a country where they serve REALLY good coffee – unlike in the old country where coffee culture is a very new thing and as a result the taste is absolutely dreadful. Now, the cafe that we...

Of laws and men

If you happen to be something of an Anglophile, as I am, then it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that PommieBastardLand has gone into terminal decline at this point. It is impossible to escape the headlines that come out of the Sceptred Isle every day that show...

Let your yes be yes and your no be no

Vernon Thorpe over at The Unz Review shreds Little Benny Shapiru’s ongoing bullshitting about “Judaeo-Christian values” with considerable skill and eviscerates The Littlest Chickenhawk’s intellectual pretensions with a savagery...

Corporate chemotherapy

Our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH), Voxemort the Malevolent, is not someone that you want to piss off. You would think that, after being defeated and humiliated in epic and repeated fashion by the SDL and his legions, his enemies would learn from...

Atheism is boring

Apparently the small-screen adaptation of famous atheist Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series is pretty unwatchable, because absolutely nothing happens of any consequence to anybody: HBO’s latest fantasy offering is an adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s...

Domain Query: Search for the truth

Longtime reader Dire Badger tried out an interesting experiment with respect to search engines in response to my recent post about the follies of outsourcing work to India: You were right about Yandex. My Russian is not great (5 years of Russian in School taught me...

Indians understand what Americans don’t

I am on LinkedIn for professional purposes under my real name and as a result I get LinkedIn news alerts from time to time. One of these alerts caught my eye because it presents perhaps the best news for the American tech sector – or rather, for American tech...