“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.”

Why WOULDN’T you want a chainsaw solo?!

JACKYL are deep-fried Southern rock at its hillbilly best. I discovered them after stumbling across their album, Best in Show. It is one of the very few albums that I’ve ever bought just because I really liked the cover art. Turns out that it kicked all kinds of...

Of war without victory

LTC Kratman points out one critically important aspect of 4th-Generation Warfare that I missed in my last post on the subject: My major problem with the notion of 4GW is that it isn’t 4GW; it’s that it’s 0GW V. 2.0. It’s simply a descent into /...

That’s no moon…

Happy STAR WARS day, y’all: I Don’t Normally Care for Cosplay, but… It’s always fun to date a girl who has a bit of a Boba Fettish Obi-Wan Was Kind of a Douche… Good Advice EVERYTHING Sounds Better with Metal Quick! Before George Screws...

The God-Emperor arises

It’s all over bar the shouting now, apparently- The Donald is in fact going to be the Republican nominee for POTUS: Triumphant Donald Trump claimed victory in the Republican presidential contest on Tuesday night, after Ted Cruz dropped out of the race following...

4th Generation Warfare and its discontents

These days, it’s a $1.2 BILLION bomber I finished reading The 4th Generation Warfare Handbook by William S. Lind and Lt. Col. Gregory A. Thiele (USMC) a few days ago. It was a rather interesting distillation of wisdom and ideas from two of the finest...

Quite.

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Bad Puppies! Sit! Stay! Heel!

… Sod off. And shove that newspaper you were about to whack us with up where the Sun don’t shine while you’re at it: For the second year in a row, nominations for the prestigious Hugo Awards for science fiction & fantasy have been swept by the...

If Beethoven had been a metalhead…

Which he absolutely would have been: EXMORTUS were the opening act for the truly almighty AMON AMARTH last Friday night. Now normally, I could not care less who opens for bands like IRON MAIDEN, AMON AMARTH, or HELLOWEEN; I applaud them politely while mentally telling...