“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.”

“Apologies for the incontinence”

“Apologies for the incontinence”

Over a decade ago, when I was working for Giant Evil Globobank #1, I went out for a walk to a rooftop party with a colleague of mine who entertained me with stories about all of the hilariously stupid typos made by people dashing off emails in a hurry. Now, I’ve...
Popcorn time

Popcorn time

If you attempted to access the website of Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Vox Day the Most Merciless and Terrible, you will undoubtedly have noticed the graphic above when you land on his page. Special thanks to reader and friend JohnC911 for bringing...
Monday morning Laffalympics

Monday morning Laffalympics

Balls. Monday again. And I had to start off this one making a presentation, and watching others present, and all that served to do was to remind me how much I HATE PowerPoint. I may have said before that I think of PowerPoint as the bastard love-child of Bill Gates...
Sunday Scripture: Return to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: Return to the Lord

12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,    “return to me with all your heart,with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;13     and rend your hearts and not your garments.”Return to the Lord your God,    for he is gracious and merciful,slow to anger, and abounding in...
The dyslexic voice of Dog

The dyslexic voice of Dog

That moniker is actually something that Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of THE GREATEST F***ING BAND OF ALL TIME, aka IRON MAIDEN, once put in the liner notes of his supremely awesome solo album, The Chemical Wedding, to describe his old friend, Arthur Brown. That was...
Friday T&A: Locke and Kay Edition

Friday T&A: Locke and Kay Edition

Gentlemen, are you familiar with the works of a certain John Locke? He was one of the premier English philosophers of his day, and was highly influential upon the Founding Fathers of the American Republic. He was well known for a number of ideas that he either came up...
Guest appearance on the JJ Podcast

Guest appearance on the JJ Podcast

This Sunday I spoke with an old friend and longtime reader, JohnC911. He had asked me to make another guest appearance on his podcast, and I was of course very happy to oblige. We spoke for about 2hrs on a wide variety of topics, and honestly we probably could have...
Monday morning with Lloyd Bochner

Monday morning with Lloyd Bochner

As you can probably tell by the fact that this post is, oh, about 12 hours late, it’s been a hellacious Monday for me. I’ve been literally too busy and anxious to sleep properly. But, the show must go on, so here we are. I got all of the nonsense out of...
Sunday Scripture: Return to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: The Soul Who Sins Shall Die

This week’s selection from Holy Writ comes courtesy of our good friend, The Male Brain, from the Book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament. A lot of “Christians” seem to think that the vengeful, wrathful God of the Old Testament is somehow different from...
Checkmating the Turducken

Checkmating the Turducken

The hottest defence news of the past week has been the unveiling of Russia’s new single-engine fighter jet, the Sukhoi-75 Checkmate. I haven’t commented on it yet, simply because there was a lot of hype surrounding it and it only seems to have died down...