“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.”

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...

Domain Query: Why the neoliberals hate the Neo-Tsar

Commenter Himself had some solid points to add to my previous post about the hold that Communism has on both the Russian people and the Western world: I’m not getting the russiaphobia the left is trying to stir up. When asked about current matters, or the west...

Churchill’s cock-up

There is a legend in foreign policy circles concerning the way in which the borders of Jordan and Saudi Arabia came to be. The eastern border of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan – which is ruled over by, supposedly, a really-for-real descendant of Islam’s...

Medicare for thee but not for me

As most of you know by now, Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont was rushed to hospital a few days ago and two stents were inserted into his arterial passages in order to unblock the blood flow in his body. The irony of this very high-quality and very high-speed...

The Balkan solution

Remember that Mel Gibson period-piece film, The Patriot, which actually was a rather good, if somewhat inaccurate, stylised portrayal of the battle for American independence in the southern colonies? Do y’all remember that scene where the colonial Congress of...

“They’re farmers with pitchforks!”

In the wake of Robert Francis Shamrocks Padraig Kilkenny Guinness Begorrah O’Meara Shillelagh O’Rourke’s strident insistence that the Daemoncrats absolutely will come and take your guns, Paul Ramsey provides a pessimistic Gen-X Hard Right take...

Grunt-work

Do YOU have what it takes to join Her Majesty’s Royal Marines? I’ll be very honest here: I sure as Hell couldn’t have passed that test, when I was 18. I was very fat and quite slow and my cardiovascular endurance was piss-poor. A year and a bit of...

How the swamp works

Until His Most August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra*, came along and completely overturned the apple-cart of the political establishment, we never really had a good term to describe the way...

Bye bye, Johnny

The swamp-draining carries on: President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has terminated National Security Advisor John Bolton from his position, citing strong disagreement on “many of his suggestions” regarding foreign policy. “I informed John Bolton last night...

The middle age of the Middle Kingdom

It has become very clear over the past few years that Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilisations” hypothesis was eerily prescient, and that China will indeed become one of the primary belligerents in a roughly five-way global conflict. The Chinese,...