“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.”

Definitely not your dad’s IRON MAIDEN

Definitely not your dad’s IRON MAIDEN

THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL FREAKIN’ TIME is back with a new song: This is definitely not what you might call “standard” IRON MAIDEN. But I have to say, it is very, very good. IRON MAIDEN has definitely slowed down a lot in recent years – well,...
Armed and fabulous

Armed and fabulous

Does anyone remember a hilarious low-budget 90s comedy film called Down Periscope, starring Kelsey Grammer and Lauren Holly? I do – quite well, actually. It’s a funny, if inconsistent and somewhat badly acted, film: The trailer is actually almost as funny...
What it’s like to have the Kung Flu

What it’s like to have the Kung Flu

For those of you who have been wondering why the output around here has slowed so dramatically over the past few weeks, it is not merely because I have been busy with work and other things. The truth is that I was sick as a dog for about 2 weeks. The symptoms all...
Men are better at EVERYTHING

Men are better at EVERYTHING

That is not a hyperbolic headline. It turns out that we really are the best at everything that women excel at doing, including beauty pageants now: Kataluna Enriquez, 27, has forged the way. She won Miss Nevada at an event in Las Vegas on Sunday, and has her sights...
Great stories belong to the world

Great stories belong to the world

Back when Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Vox Day the Most Malevolent and Terrible decided to wade into the world of comic books, some of his longtime followers and readers wondered if he’d lost his marbles. After all, Voxemort the Malevolent is...
The dragon’s downfall

The dragon’s downfall

If you’ve been paying much attention to the scourge of modrenity over the past few years, you might be forgiven for thinking that the Chinese are going to eat America’s lunch. The never-to-be-sufficiently-cursed whorenalists and presstitutes of the...
Cow-poop vs Kung Flu – WHO YA GOT?!?!

Cow-poop vs Kung Flu – WHO YA GOT?!?!

So there I was the other day, taking a bit of a break between running a bunch of M&A models and figuring out market segmentation for a client, when I ran across a couple of articles that made me sit bolt upright in my chair with shock. You see, there are quite a...
You can’t buy fighting spirit

You can’t buy fighting spirit

Remember what I wrote earlier about how the US military cannot win wars? That is because the US military is fundamentally unserious about the subject of warfighting. To demonstrate this problem, let us observe military recruiting ads from three different powers...
Martial farts

Martial farts

Good ol’ Sensei Seth decided to poke fun at the various martial arts styles and show us what would happen if you put them all in the same room together: He was so successful with this that he decided to include a few of the “newer” arts in a...