“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.”

A possibly severe case of intellectualism

Courtesy of reader and friend LastRedoubt, I came across a rather amusing article by Nassim Taleb concerning the dangers of the Intellectual Yet Idiot- the acronym for which sounds remarkably similar to a Yiddish expression of annoyance: What we have been seeing...

Watch the losers run to their safe spaces

The latest season of my favourite family TV show, Last Man Standing, is currently running. (Hard to believe that it’s been going strong for six years- and is getting better with every passing year.) In one of the newest episodes, the show’s central...

A useful incentive

Remember how, back in October, a certain way-over-the-hill pop tart by the name of Madonnapromised every guy who voted for the Hilldebeast that she would personally fellate him if he pulled the trigger and blew his own brains out voted for the most corrupt, venal,...

Ol’ Blood n’ Guts is BACK!

The more I see and hear of the likely future Secretary of Defence of the United States of America, the more I like him: “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” – from a speech Mattis delivered to Marines arriving in Iraq in 2003. This...

Speaking of political correctness…

It’s time to take a sledgehammer to it by offending everyone we possibly can, TOP GEAR style: I couldn’t stop laughing over the comments about that Mexican car. In case you’re wondering, it’s called the Mastretta MXT, and in TOP GEAR...

The cancer in the marrow

Steve Hughes is a comedian who, for someone in his line of work, actually has his head screwed on quite tightly. He’s Australian- so he (presumably) understands that meat is murder, tasty, tasty murder; he’s a metalhead- so he has impeccable taste in...

So this thrash band walks into a salsa club…

Question: what do you suppose happens when one of the greatest drummers ever to beat the crap out of the skins shows up at a drum-off expo to show off what he can do? Answer: something like THIS… I am going to commit heavy metal heresy when I say this, but the...

The Betrothed by Rudyard Kipling

Was there ever a more red-pill poet and writer than Rudyard Kipling? About the only one who I genuinely think could possibly compete for that title was probably W. Somerset Maugham- I know Charles Bukowski is supposed to be right up there too, but I’ve...