“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.”

What a Complete Badass Looks Like

Depending on your point of view, badassitude can be defined by a number of things- size, strength, prowess, skill, reputation, whatever. Here are five images- figure out for yourself which one represents the biggest badass: Now here’s the real point of this...

Beginner’s Guide to Eating Paleo

Courtesy of Spaniard from Return of Kings: The paleo lifestyle’s the first step in honing the discipline many of us never learned from our absent fathers. The lifestyle, known as the barbarian or caveman lifestyle, has been gaining in popularity in recent years....

Be a Man: Learn to Cook

Good Lord, what an insane week it’s been. I’m glad it’s over, yet my work still is not done. Regardless, I still had a little time to do some thinking about certain topics that are near and dear to me. One of them is, of course, food. Like most...

Be a Man: Eat Paleo

Of all of the many, many lies that we are told today, perhaps none are more dangerous than the ones concerning what and how we should eat. Take a look at the US Department of Agriculture’s food pyramid: Note how the base of the pyramid is made up of grains,...

Be a Man: Learn to Shoot

This one will demonstrate exactly why much of my immediate family thinks that I’ve gone off the deep end and am some kind of America-loving wannabe deep-fried redneck hillbilly. Can’t say I care, I’ve wanted to do this for years. As far as I’m...

How NOT to lift

As I’ve mentioned before, weightlifting is essential to the health and strength of every man. If you don’t lift weights, you bloody well should. That does NOT, however, mean that you should just go into the gym without having some idea of what you’re...

Be a Man: Weightlifting

Jack Donovan’s book, The Way of Men, lists four “masculine virtues”: Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honour. His book is a short read, but a damn fine one at that, and I suppose it’s worth expanding on each of these in turn in various posts....