“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.”

Friday T&A: World Cup Haters Edition

Posting has been quite light this week as I have indeed been very busy traveling through Russia. I’ve been having an absolute blast, running around St. Petersburg (oh yes) and Moscow like a little kid, walking miles every day, and enjoying the glorious late...

Friday T&A: Polskie rakiety Edition

Evidently last week’s installment in this most beloved and excellent series of posts was very well received. Seeing as how I am nothing if not accommodating of the preferences and requests of my readers, I figured I ought to do the right and just thing and...

Friday T&A: Blatant Ripoff Edition

As you may know, my buddy Last Redoubt and I have an ongoing friendly competition of sorts to see who can come up with the best series of pictures of gorgeous women every Friday. We share some of our readers – which is actually perfectly acceptable and normal...

Friday T&A: Artlessness Edition

It’s a beautiful warm Friday evening here as we head into Memorial Day weekend, and that long weekend is off to an auspicious start already. I was walking along my usual route along the coastline near my home up to the Korean War memorial this morning, when I...

Friday T&A: Baltic Breeze Edition

It has been quite a while since I turned the focus of this series – everyone’s absolute favourite part of the entire blog, of course – onto the often spectacular women of Eastern Europe. A reader, who shall remain nameless, mentioned that Latvia is...

Domain Query: Mansplaining required

Some chick named Alicia Bennett – I am assuming her gender identity based on her profile page – stopped by to leave a comment from a post from over 3 years ago which I thought was worth sharing: Cute and all but, this contest isn’t about beauty 🙂...