“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.”

Wrong said Fred

Wrong said Fred

Fred Reed’s columns are often good fun to read, as he has a rather acerbic and highly entertaining style. For those who don’t know anything about him, he is quite a prolific writer. He is a US Marine and Vietnam veteran, who was severely wounded in the...
Jingoism cannot replace competence

Jingoism cannot replace competence

Former Task Unit Bruiser commander Jocko Willink put out a video recently in which he pretended to be the Commander in Chief of America, and framed a hypothetical correct and proper response to the catastrophe in Afghanistan: View this post on Instagram A post shared...
“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...
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...
Gingervitis treatment

Gingervitis treatment

This one goes out to Dire Badger and all of my other readers who suffer from severe gingervitis – it consists of redheaded green-eyed (I think) Russian guitarist Alyona Vargasova doing her thing: OK, yeah, she’s GOOD. And very obviously classically...
Train CrossShit, lose wars

Train CrossShit, lose wars

I’ve been banging on for a while now about how the US military couldn’t win so much as an egg-and-spoon race at this point, much less an actual shooting war with China or, especially, Russia. Few, if any, of my readers disagree with me – including...
What a man-made daemon looks like

What a man-made daemon looks like

That picture there is of a mentally ill homosexual Brazilian man named Rodrigo Alves, who gained considerable notoriety as the “Human Ken Doll” and spent over $800K on various surgeries. Those surgeries include repeated rhinoplasties that have destroyed...
Browse like it’s 1996

Browse like it’s 1996

Our good buddy The Male Brain sent over a rather interesting article from the tech world a couple of weeks ago, about a company that seeks to bring back old-school Netscape Navigator-style all-in-one internet suites: What goes around comes around. In fact, the 1990s...
Sugoi, Eddie-sama

Sugoi, Eddie-sama

THE GREATEST F***ING BAND OF ALL F***ING TIME will soon be releasing their 17th (!!!!!) studio album, and by Eddie’s fangs, the new album cover looks absolutely incredible. The details about the album itself are pretty interesting too: After releasing their new...