“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.”

Piling higher and deeper into a fitness fustercluck

Piling higher and deeper into a fitness fustercluck

A very weird bit of internet drama blew up over the last few weeks. Most of you have probably never heard of a guy named Dr. Mike Israetel, who runs a YouTube channel called “Renaissance Perioditization”, or something like that. He has a doctorate in… well, something...
The Army of the future

The Army of the future

In relation to my last poast about casualties in the Banderastan War, one question that keeps coming up, over and over again, is the obvious one: why, if the Russians have such overwhelming superiority over the Ukrainians, are they taking so bloody long? This question...
Guest Post: Historical Lessons of the SSH by Randale6

Guest Post: Historical Lessons of the SSH by Randale6

I am pleased to present the second of a pair of guest poasts that LRFotS Randale6 sent over from his fortress-lair, somewhere on the Asian steppes. In this instalment, our friend analyses the archetypes of the socio-sexual hierarchy by looking at past (and one...
Guest Post: Fractal Nations by Randale6

Guest Post: Fractal Nations by Randale6

LRFotS Randale6 wrote to me before I went on vacation to offer up a couple of guest poasts, which I am finally getting around to publishing. The first is essentially a repeat – well, in part – of a great big long write-up that he did on his site, on how...
A tale told by an idiot

A tale told by an idiot

Now that the summit between the Neo-Tsar and the God-Emperor in Alaska is over and done with, and at least a day has elapsed since all that kicked off, we can now take a moment to step back and assess things a bit more dispassionately. Personally, I never had any...
Constitutional rule can never be restored

Constitutional rule can never be restored

The painting you see up top is of course Picasso’s “masterpiece”, Guernica. I am not a fan of modern art, at all, but that painting is considered one of the greatest of the 20th Century. I cannot say I particularly care for it, but it does have a rather harrowing...
White is all right

White is all right

The picture you see above, comes from an advertisement campaign launched by the American Eagle clothing brand. I cannot say I have any experience whatsoever with that brand, but they seem to have dumped half a hundredweight of wasabi straight into the tremendously...
We are living in a fraudulent economy

We are living in a fraudulent economy

Some of the older geezers among my readership may remember a movie called The Truman Show. This movie has become something of a cult classic, as far as I understand it, and was one of those films that showed just how good an actor Jim Carrey really is. For those of...
Didactic Mind, Ep 122: Donny Trumpo’s Wars

Didactic Mind, Ep 122: Donny Trumpo’s Wars

As we all know by now, the US, under President Trump’s leadership, attacked Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. This is not merely a bad decision – it is among the craziest, most risky, and most stupid decisions ever taken by any world leader. In...
Domain Query: Neo-Byzantine Intrigues

Domain Query: Neo-Byzantine Intrigues

We are back, at long last, after a lengthy break, with a new Domain Query podcast. Once again, we are answering a question from LRFotS Randale6, who draws an intriguing parallel between the current, parlous, state of the FUSA, and the old Byzantine Empire. Our friend...