“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.”

Grab your tinfoil hats and tinted lenses

Grab your tinfoil hats and tinted lenses

The other day, a friend of mine sent me a link to a redonkulously long interview with one Dr. Jack Kruse – whom I had never heard of before – on the Danny Jones podcast. On a whim, I started listening to it – and almost immediately got hooked, because the bombs this...
A category error of thinking

A category error of thinking

The picture you see above is a screenshot of the headlines that blared across Israeli media in 1992, following the assassination of one Abbas al-Musawi, then the Secretary-General of the Shi’ite Lebanese militia, Hezbollah. The Israelis killed al-Musawi, along with...
Cutting the cheese

Cutting the cheese

The Hypergamouse Kickstarter campaign has, uh, kicked off, as it were, and has already blown WAY past its initial goals. I will cut right to the chase here – if you want more of one of the best webcomics out there, and the ONLY comic anywhere in the world that...
Domain Query: Asian girls

Domain Query: Asian girls

It has been QUITE a while since we last did a proper podcast – first I was busy, then I was stupidly busy, then I was on vacation, and then I was (and still am) sick. But nothing gets older than an excuse, so let us crack on with a great set of questions from...
The day that presaged the end of the Empire

The day that presaged the end of the Empire

The good news is, I am back from vacation. The bad news is, MAN-COLD. And, as Any Fule Kno, man-colds are the most devastating of all, because they are about 20x worse than mere regular colds. This is what tends to happen when you go from 36 degrees (Celsius, for all...
Why “weird” works against Vance

Why “weird” works against Vance

Pretty much immediately after His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, announced...
When Eden burns

When Eden burns

The north of England is burning tonight, because of clashes between “far-right” and “left-wing” mobs in cities like Liverpool, Hull, Manchester, Leeds, and others. London is not immune to them either – though Londonistan is NOT an English...
Father Time is undefeated

Father Time is undefeated

When a man starts out lifting serious daddy-weight in the gym, the thought that one day, he might lift the very last rep of his life, almost never crosses his mind. The younger he starts, the longer he has to move heavy things around. But, the fact remains that, one...
Domain Query: The programmed mind

Domain Query: The programmed mind

LRFotS took a moment out of his sojourns through East Asia to write in about the utility and usefulness of programming as a skill, and how one might go about learning it in the most time-efficient way possible: Didact, I have been looking into programming for sometime...
Master of puppets, ruler of none

Master of puppets, ruler of none

In ancient Norse mythology – specifically, within the Heimskringla, written down in Old Norse by the legendary skald,Snorri Sturluson, some 800 years ago – there is a very interesting section about the Aesir-Vanir War. This epic conflict between the two “classes” of...