“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.”

The twenty-one year emergency

The twenty-one year emergency

You all know what today is. You all remember where you were, 21 years ago today. Think about that span of time carefully. If your child was born in that year, that same child would already have passed the ages of maturity for driving, voting, and drinking in the...
A study in ticket sales

A study in ticket sales

For those of you who don’t bother to keep up with politics in the Balkans – which is most of us, self very much included – then the whole kerfuffle between Serbia and the bit of the country that NATO illegally broke away from it by force and occupied...
The other side of the anime god

The other side of the anime god

In this week’s Great Mondaydact Browser Beater, the videos of #BasedTucker’s specials featured several long segments in which he interviewed one Andrew Tate. Up until about two weeks ago, I had never heard of the guy, which tells you just hoe ignorant I am...
The voice of the people

The voice of the people

Seeing as how Bozo BoJo – once known, somewhat affectionately, around here as Boris the Floppy-Haired Sheepadoodle before he turned out to be precisely the kind of blithering idiot that he himself suspected he was – is on his way out, it is well past time...
The Deep State gods

The Deep State gods

Given that we’re all nerds here – well, most of us are – and given that a few said nerds are big fans of the Warhammer franchise in either its regular or 40K flavours, I figured it might be useful to borrow an idea from that universe to describe the...
Warm fuzzies

Warm fuzzies

A rather piquant video has been making the rounds on teh innarwebz, showing a Federal BATFE agent being arrested and tased by local police in the USA for, basically, being a colossal arse. The whole clip is well worth enjoying in full, simply to get a feeling for the...
Stepping on the dragon’s tail

Stepping on the dragon’s tail

Note: this is an expanded version of a long-form set of posts that I shared with my Telegram channel members earlier today. I have read a number of opinions this morning that China took a big L with respect to Nasty Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan yesterday. In my...
Didactic Mind, Ep 103: No World Order!

Didactic Mind, Ep 103: No World Order!

The latest podcast episode is all about the evolution of a new world order, based on nation-states acting in their own interests, rather than the extraordinarily arrogant, foolish, childish, reckless, and outright stupid globalist approach taken by the collective West...
Didactic Mind, Ep 103: No World Order!

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...