“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.”

Media malfeasance in a time of plague

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; — From “IF” by Rudyard Kipling As Corona-chan continues to perform...

Well there goes Paddy’s Day

Corona-chan has successfully managed to shut down basically the entire developed world at this point. Russia has virtually banned foreigners from entering the country until May, Europe is in the throes of a massive crisis and seems totally unable to get it under...

Every maths nerd’s second favourite day

Today is, of course, March 14th, which – for my American readers, anyway – comes to 3.14.2020. And if you squint really hard, that is approximately the same as the famous mathematical constant, pi – which, to the first 12 places or...

The God-Emperor and the Plague-Bearers

His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, announced yesterday that the USA would shut down all travel from Europe for a month and enact...
Didactic Mind, Ep 19: The Corona-chan Poast

Didactic Mind, Ep 19: The Corona-chan Poast

In this latest episode of Didactic Mind, I look at the spread of Corona-chan and try to bring some sober, clear-headed analysis that cuts through the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) that has been spread throughout the world by the mainstream (((media))) through...

Adolt Edumacation

I was reading through Power Line yesterday and came across this particularly hilarious indictment of the American education system: The money quote from Brian “I totally got shot down in a helicopter in Afghanistan” Williams had to be,...
Domain Query: The Creature from Jekyll Island

Domain Query: The Creature from Jekyll Island

Longtime reader and friend of the blog Kapios had a very interesting question for me from Monday’s compilation of amazeballs awesomesauce: I wish Trump went after the Central Bank as hard as he obliterated the Demoncrats. Baby steps I guess, but since he...

The face of madness

For those of you (like me) who enjoy watching an angry Scot swearing a blue streak at restaurant owners and staff, there is a particularly (in)famous episode of Kitchen Nightmares US that is extremely compelling, and crazy, to watch: There have been some...

Sink the damn boats

In case you are American and therefore have had most of your attention consumed by the ongoing clown-car crash that is the Daemoncratic primary circus – which I will certainly admit is highly entertaining and compelling to watch – across the Pond in...

STAR WARPED

In case you have not been keeping track – and I most certainly have not – the STAR WARS canon has an all-new massive multilayered media and publishing project all set up and ready to go. It is called The High Republic Era, or something similar,...