“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.”

Didactic Mind, Ep 03: From Prince to Pauper

Didactic Mind, Ep 03: From Prince to Pauper

I wasn’t able to record and upload a podcast last night because of travel – was on the road, or rather, on flights, all bloody day long, and didn’t get back into my own place until basically midnight – but here it is, at last: I cover quite a...

Happy HELLOWEEN 2019

Well, here we are at what is supposedly the spookiest day of the year, but which in actual fact just involves a lot of adorable little kids dressed up in silly costumes knocking on doors and begging for candy. Good for them, says I. There is no such tradition in...

Evil and cowardice

I realise that I am a few days late to this hilarious dogpile onto The Jeff Bezos Blog – er, I mean, The Washington Compost – because of the way that they completely screwed up the obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But it’s never too late...
Didactic Mind, Ep 03: From Prince to Pauper

Didactic Mind Ep 02: Loss, Pain, and Resiliency

The latest episode of my podcast is ready to go – here it is embedded below for you to listen to at your leisure: Many thanks again to reader Pat Himself for providing some excellent suggestions on how to use Audacity the clean up the track and decrease the...

Enemies of the people

The Project Veritas scoop on CNN has clearly shown absolutely incontrovertible evidence, from within the belly of the beast, of media malfeasance of the worst kind: It’s not like anybody who reads my work needs to be reminded that the Clown News Network is a...

Well that was stupid

While we’re on the subject of Zuck the Uber-Gamma, it would appear that Faceborg considers itself a publisher, not a platform: Facebook, in court filings defending itself from a lawsuit filed by activist and congressional candidate Laura Loomer, has cited its...

Medicare for thee but not for me

As most of you know by now, Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont was rushed to hospital a few days ago and two stents were inserted into his arterial passages in order to unblock the blood flow in his body. The irony of this very high-quality and very high-speed...

Bugger this for a bag of Wookie-ookies!

Via our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) comes two bits of news that can only be described as “so incredibly stupid that they make the Death Star’s design flaws look sensible”. The first one concerns the “established canonical...

Ownage

It used to be easy for me to insult the New York F***ing Times by calling them ПРАВДА, which those of you who know your history will recognise as the state-run newspaper in Soviet times whose name meant, hilariously, “truth” in Russian. The Russkies...

Assholes get things done

I ran across this very special and very interesting “lost interview” of Steve Jobs, dating back to the mid 90s, which has to be watched in its entirety to be believed: This is especially germane given that the iPhone 11 was recently released. If ever there...