“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.”

Didactic Mind, Ep 102: We Don’t Need No Edjoocayshun

Didactic Mind, Ep 102: We Don’t Need No Edjoocayshun

In this latest episode of the Didactic Mind podcast, I discuss the rather curious phenomenon that we see today of the Eurasian nations being led by (largely) competent, capable, sensible people who are well-suited to their specific positions, versus the completely...
You know you’ve arrived when…

You know you’ve arrived when…

Most scammers are not exactly known for subtlety when sending out their fairly naked attempts to get you to fork over your hard-earned money to them. The most hilarious ones always involve some Nigerian who apparently stopped studying English at about the 5th Grade...
Man plans – God laughs

Man plans – God laughs

I don’t follow or care about tennis very much anymore, ever since His Fedness more or less stopped playing last year – and it is not clear that Federer will ever come back. (He is nearly 41 with a dodgy knee – I am not much younger than he is, I have...
… he’s going to ask for a glass of bilk

… he’s going to ask for a glass of bilk

Chaps, do y’all remember that post that I wrote a few weeks back about the tragicomic case of a low-Delta guy living with his baby-mama, who took in a Ukrainian refugee and then ended up running away with her? Well, it turns out that there have been a number of...
Scrubbing away the veneer

Scrubbing away the veneer

Quite a while ago, when he appeared as a guest on THE GREATEST TV SHOW OF ALL TIME, a certain Boris Johnson was asked by Ye Greateste Livinge Englisheman, the legendary philosopher Clarksonius, to explain exactly what his core characteristics are. The words uttered by...
Domain Query: The Evil That Men Do

Domain Query: The Evil That Men Do

LRFotS Randale6 wrote in earlier this week to request my take on a very important, indeed fundamental, question about the human condition – and he did it by quoting Spaceballs. Now, when a Christian nerd gets a question from another sci-fi nerd phrased...
Life isn’t supposed to imitate art like that

Life isn’t supposed to imitate art like that

Sometimes you see a story in the news where you think to yourself, “the people behind that idea cannot possibly be so stupid as to turn that into reality, right???”. And then you read on a little bit, and you realise that not only are they that stupid, but...
Didactic Mind, Ep 102: We Don’t Need No Edjoocayshun

Didactic Mind, Ep 101: The Three-Way Deep State Civil War

The Didactic Mind podcast is back with a new episode based on a very interesting livestream from The Duran, in which the Greek gents interviewed the esteemed Robert Barnes. In that livestream, he pointed out that there are three factions of the Deep State, engaged in...
An enema for “emanations”

An enema for “emanations”

As pretty much all of my American readers know all too well, the whole issue of “abortion rights” in the USSA has been one of the most divisive and poisonous in the culture wars for 50 years. Justice Harry Blackmun’s nonsensical and utterly tortured...
Domain Query: Whither Mother Russia?

Domain Query: Whither Mother Russia?

The Domain Query series is back with another interesting question from a reader, which I figured deserved a proper and thoughtful answer. This is probably my longest Domain Query episode yet, and I probably do get a bit carried away in my enthusiasm for the...