“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.”

Just as Cicero predicted

Just as Cicero predicted

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...
The unsupportable heresy

The unsupportable heresy

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...
What’s a factor of 10 between friends?

What’s a factor of 10 between friends?

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...
Evolution Complete

Evolution Complete

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...

Ungrateful diversity hires

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...

Identifying the enemy

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...

From cold to white hot

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...

The Great Scattering begins

To pretty much nobody’s surprise, when you turn the greatest cities in America (and, by extension, the Western world) into ridiculously expensive, crime-ridden, rat-infested, vagrant-swamped, crowded, congested, shit-stained, urine-stinking, needle-strewn,...

Trust the Slavs to get it right

I DO NOT listen to pop music – rather obviously, and that does cause a few “problems” from time to time. Because I’m completely clueless about pop music and popular films, this results in frustrated communications between me and some of my...

It’s good to be a toxic fan

After years of denials and scorn heaped upon the fans who clamoured for it and argued that the theatrical release of Justice League was absolute ASS, the fortuitously timed merger of AT&T and TimeWarner has finally given the world the film that...