“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.”
Apparently my use of the term is a cause for some amusement among my readers – rightly so, of course. In case any of you are wondering why i keep telling people to comment under a name, even if it’s just something as silly as “Apocalyptic...
Commenter Sasha Hrongmitts had a rather interesting follow-up question to my last post about the early history of Islam: Are you sure the Persian Empire used Arabs as troops against the Byzantines? I could be mistaken, but I thought one of the reasons the Arabs were...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If you ended up here after clicking on any article originating from Didact’s Reach, and you’re wondering WTFH happened, don’t worry, you haven’t gone crazy. (Well, no more than usual, considering you’re reading my writing.) All that...
The House of the Devil Mouse is learning, to its considerable chagrin and cost, that hiring people solely on the basis of their skin colour rather than their actual abilities is likely to bite you in the ass in the long run: “I’m the only cast member who had their own...
I normally don’t spend too much time worrying about what Laura Ingraham has to say about most things. I like and respect her a lot, but I generally find her commentary to be considerably less interesting than that of #BasedTucker, who is easily the best colour...
Before this week, a young man named Kyle Rittenhouse probably had the same dreams that most of us did when we were 17. He probably wanted to be popular, get into a good college or university, get a good job, have a nice girlfriend with perky tits and a cute butt, get...
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