“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.”

All the single ladies

… are bloody well going to stay single, judging by what follows. Wanted: Naive, easily bamboozled men willing to put up with massive amounts of female nonsense for the privilege of maybe being able to nail a really hot piece of Brazilian ass once in a...

Trust

Lord but it is good to be back home. (Going back to work and having my extroverted colleague yapping in my ear all the time, not so much…) Yet I cannot help but feel a wrenching sense of loss at having left Eretz Israel. I have said it before, and now I...

Thoughts (and pictures) from a small rocky country

The first thing that strikes you about Israel when you get off the plane is how green everything is. Taking the bus from Ben Gurion Airport to the place where we were staying, I vividly remember staring out the window in stunned fascination at the...

The Holy Land

God didn’t pick us because we were weak or would run from danger. We’ve taken murder and sorrow and humiliation for six thousand years and we have kept faith. We have outlived everyone who has tried to destroy us. Can’t you see it, Kitty? … this...

Blog hiatus

I’m off for about 10 days to travel. I’m not telling where I’m going (yet), but suffice to say that this is a trip that I have been wanting to make for quite literally half my life. Pictures, stories, and tales of wine and song to follow when I get...

“Why won’t they let us LIVE?!”

When I was 14, I read two books that changed my thinking and my life forever. The first was a novel, based on real events, called Exodus, by one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers, Leon Uris. It provided a fictionalised, but largely accurate, account of the...

Blitzkrieg

Jesus Double Facepalm: That is how badly you FAIL “Lightning war” is quite simply the only way to describe what Germany did to Brazil yesterday. Now normally I could not give a toss about this odd sport named “football”- something that you...

My kind of burger joint

The kind that not only allows armed diners into the premises, but arms the waitresses too: How does a Swiss and Wesson grilled cheese for lunch sound?  Or a Guac 19 burger for dinner?  And would you like to attend a concealed carry class after your...

Individual thought patterns

[This post might take its name from one of the greatest and most important death metal albums ever produced, but it has no overarching theme or specific purpose. It’s just a catalog of thoughts and ideas stemming from a recent trip.] The Healing Road I love...

Ghost Rider

In 1998, Neil Peart, the greatest goddamn drummer of all ti- er, I mean, the drummer and lyricist of RUSH, lost his daughter in a freak accident as she was driving to college. Shortly after that, he lost his wife to cancer, though he maintained that she died from a...