“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.”

Guest Post: Attraction and Game Theory by Stephanie

[Here is the second of a two-part set of guest posts by Stephanie Shepard. You can find the first here, and of course at Stephanie’s new blog. I recommend taking a trip over there and to her main blog, she doesn’t post frequently but she writes well and...

Churchianity is worse than atheism

A left-liberal Christian argues that it is possible to hold socially conservative yet fiscally liberal views simultaneously without contradiction, and as usual completely misses the point of Christ’s Ministry: Powers described her gradual progression from...

Domain Query: Of models and madness

FrancisBegbie had a request regarding my recent post about the manner in which economies conduct seppuku: Economics is pretty simple in a lot of ways, and cannot be modelled with bullshit models. I’ve taken looks at some of them econometrics models and...

The Church will survive a bad pope

There has been some considerable gnashing of teeth among the American right after the recent release of Pope Francis’s first ever papal manifesto- and it’s not hard to see why: “Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of...

How economies die

A recent article over at Mises.org jogged my memory about the way in which an economy commits suicide: Imagine that Cuba and North Korea became, overnight, the two most free-market, limited-government countries in the world. The two countries would have immediately...

Time management for cranky misanthropic bastards

The original title of this post WAS supposed to be “Time management for introverts”, but I figure Vox probably wouldn’t mind this version too much: I wouldn’t call myself a master of time management. I’m lazy, I procrastinate, and I am...

Seven lessons in leadership, learned the hard way

Anyone who has been reading this blog for a while knows that I spend a lot of time writing on the subject of deep introverts and our place within our wider society. For those folks unfortunate enough not to understand us very well- i.e. pretty much everyone else-...