“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: Ginger snap edition

It was brought to my attention by an eagle-eyed reader that, in my last post in this series (which, believe me, I love adding to) that I had somehow missed adding at least one redhead to the long display of womanly delights. Now normally this isn’t a...

“Vibrancy is our strength”

And if we keep repeating it to ourselves often and loudly and desperately enough, and make all the right-sounding noises, maybe, just maybe, we’ll begin to believe it!!! And we’ll defend the idea so desperately as to shout down and even potentially arrest...

WE aren’t the problem, YOU are

Early last year, our friend Aaron Clarey released his book, Curse of the High IQ. In that book, our buddy El Capitan pointed out that highly intelligent people tend to have far fewer friends, and far more difficulty with making new ones. Essentially, people with...

Well imagine my shock!

It would appear that our friends over at Tor Books are outraged- OUTRAGED, I tell you!!!- at the thought of some jumped-up johnnies from Finland and Italy jumping up and down all over their jumped-up Johnny’s latest magnum non-opus: We just received an...

It only took 4 years…

… but I’ve finally gone and updated the theme used at this place to something a little more modern. It just so happened that Blogger decided recently that it might be nice to move into the 21st Century, where WordPress and other mainline sites have already...

The burn ointment is in aisle 4

From the mouths of babes, and all that: Obviously I am nowhere near the poet and rhetorician that, say, Heartiste is. So I’ll blatantly rip off borrow a page from his book and call that a truth-shiv plunged straight into the core of every young...

The ageless juveniles

I recently finished the twelfth, and last, of Robert A. Heinlein’s famous “juvenile” novels, published when the late Grandmaster of science-fiction was approaching, but not quite yet at, the very peak of his immense literary powers. Now I am, of...

Still not tired

The opposition party in the liberal media scored a truly beautiful own-goal (again) when Rachel Maddow attempted to answer a question that almost nobody had ever asked: Instead of getting right to her big scoop about a 2005 Trump tax return she obtained, Maddow opened...

In defence of normalcy

A few days ago I wrote about the fact that, to a mind steeped in the madness of feminism and the insistence of its adherents in treating men and women as entirely interchangeable, it can be jarring in the extreme to see what the world might look like when the...