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Rogue Snippets #2: Finland’s Hedging Strategy and the End of Alliance Certainty
By Kevin Duska | Rogue SnippetsFebruary 9, 2026 There’s a particular kind of clarity that comes from living next to an existential threat. Finland has 1,340 kilometers of border with Russia and exactly zero illusions about what miscalculation costs. When Helsinki joined NATO in April 2023, and abandoning eight decades of military non-alignment in doing…
If Your Employees Need to Be Motivated, You’re Doing It Very Wrong
If your employees are not motivated by the baseline task, you’re either recruiting wrong or defining the task wrong. Your staff should show motivation before you show them the bonus structure. You’re hiring killers and operators – not pigs and NPCs. FIRE AVERAGE PEOPLE; HIRE EXCEPTIONAL MOTHERFUCKERS! As a leader, you’ve done a good job…
Two Dogs, Two Operating Systems, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Inexplicable Background Processes
Two Dogs, Two Operating Systems, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Inexplicable Background Processes My beloved late dog Rogue ran Windows 95. Not the corporate deployment version—the home edition your grandmother had, the one that came on the Packard Bell with the cow-print box and somehow never crashed even though you…
My Favourite Jokes: A Continuing Highly Offensive Compendium
My Favourite Jokes: A Continuing Highly Offensive Compendium It is critical to note that these jokes are mostly highly offensive. I reject the premise that anything, except punching down, should be censored in the context of humour. Humour represents a critical safety valve for individuals 2025/12/06; “The Bible says to not cover thy neighbor’s wife…
Rogue Snippets #1: On the Threat of Populism
In the dystopian charade of modern history, demagogues trade hope like counterfeit currency. They brandish the flag and whisper that they alone speak for you, promising easy solutions in one-liners and street-corner sermons. It almost feels good, at least for a moment, to hear that your anger and fear are justified, that they’ve got the…
Icons, Smoke, and the Scar on My Thigh: A Post-Catholic Easter
Prelude – Scar Tissue and Smoke (A Pashka of My Own) I’ve never known what to do with Easter. In Quebec, it was just another long weekend by the time I came of age. The churches were half-empty, the chocolate bunnies always tasted faintly of cardboard, and no one believed in resurrection unless it was…
Social Constructs and Their Failure Points: How to Tell What’s Real When Everyone’s Performing
1. Introduction: Navigating the Social Simulation Most of what we call “real” isn’t.Not because people are lying—but because they don’t know they’re performing. They wake up every day, slip into a prewritten role, and spend the rest of their waking hours trading social currency in a world built on implied scripts. You do it, too.…
What I Believe Is Not a Party Platform
I. Stop Looking for Labels If you came here looking for a label — left, right, libertarian, centrist, reformist, whatever — I’m going to disappoint you. I don’t fit your quadrant.I’m not interested in your spectrum.And I’ve spent enough time inside the institutions that manufacture those frameworks to know they’re about containment, not clarity. Ideology,…
Ten Tracks for the End of Trust: An Indictment of the Canadian Bureaucratic State
Track 1. “Form A” Song cue: “Left and Leaving” – The Weakerthans(Play this soft. Paper-filing volume.) I write in blue ink on legal pads because it’s easier to see what’s real. The words push a little deeper into the page. They don’t disappear under fluorescent light. They aren’t Times New Roman. They aren’t Times New…
Why I Toss Salt Over My Shoulder (A Ritual I Can’t Stop Doing)
Why I Toss Salt Over My Shoulder (And Don’t Fucking Know Why) I spilled salt again this morning. Not much — just a bit from the busted Walmart container that came pre-cursed, leaking into the delivery bag like it had something to say. I was already running late. My wife was not in the mood…