“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.”
My friend Kyle Trouble and I have been working on a new podcasting series called “Troublesome Truths” over the last few weeks. The idea is to spread some truths out there that might make people flinch, but nonetheless need to be heard. The first two...
This week marks a special milestone – 50 episodes of any podcast are a pretty good collection, especially when they are each an hour long or more. I’m not saying they’re ALL gems, because they’re NOT – I have at least enough...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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