“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.”

Careless Airways dropped a flying piano

Careless Airways dropped a flying piano

Reader furor kek tonicus – he of the awesome and ever-changing handle – posted a video in the comments to yesterday’s article about the God-Emperor’s epic attack raccoons, about the Joint Strike Flying Piano. Apparently, one of Uncle...
Make Raccoons Great Again

Make Raccoons Great Again

Once more, His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, shows us that anything is...
Mr. Softy gets blue-screen balls

Mr. Softy gets blue-screen balls

A reader and podcast listener alerted me this morning to a truly hilarious story about everyone’s favourite corporate whipping boy. Apparently, a huge swathe of Microsoft’s core cloud services went offline, and as far as anyone can figure out, it was...
“Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?”

“Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?”

Dr. David Wood is a very interesting character. His life is an incredibly compelling example of the power and the glory of God’s grace. He is – or was – a diagnosed psychopath with self-aggrandising tendencies. He nearly bludgeoned his own father to...
Rage for order

Rage for order

The latest news out of Europe and Asia concerning the Kung Flu is grim, to say the least. PommieBastardLande is looking at implementing yet another lockdown – the government there has taken to calling it a “circuit-breaker”, and apparently believes...
Didactic Mind, Ep. 47: The Nameless One

Didactic Mind, Ep. 47: The Nameless One

The latest episode of the podcast is up and running. This week, I start off by discussing the latest news from the SCOTUS, with the passing of Justice Ginsburg, and the likely ramifications thereof. I then segue into a topic that I mentioned in the Domain Query...
The day the world ended

The day the world ended

September 11th, 2001. Quite literally the day that the world, as we knew it, ended. Think of where you were on that day. Every single one of you older than the age of about, oh, 8, will remember perfectly. If I ask you what you thought on that day, 19 years ago, you...
Just as Cicero predicted

Just as Cicero predicted

In his dialogue “De re publica,” Marcus Tullius Cicero explained, through the fictionalized voice of Scipio Africanus, that there are three basic types of government. The first is the monarchy, in which the king rules. The second is the aristocracy, in...
The unsupportable heresy

The unsupportable heresy

Listeners to my podcast will recall that I did a two-part series a few weeks ago called “One Man, One Book”, examining the historicity of the so-called “Religion of Peace”. I did it a bit bassackwards, and I’ll cop to that without...
What’s a factor of 10 between friends?

What’s a factor of 10 between friends?

There is an old story about NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which I might have mentioned somewhere on the blog before – I can’t remember exactly when or where, that does tend to happen when you’ve written something approaching 3,000 posts...