“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.”

Guest post: “I Hate the Masses” by The Observer

This here is a classic post that my Singaporean counterpart wrote up about three years back. It’s every bit as relevant today as it was back then, given what all has happened since the day that he wrote it. Since I do not have permission to reprint it in its...

The Gift of Men

I do not often think upon death. Neither do most young men; after all, as our elders are so fond of reminding us, we think we are invincible. Yet, as a recent and rather good article over at RoK points out, the only absolute certainty in life is that we are all going...

Even nerds can’t defend STAR WARS VII

The latest Honest Trailer is all about STAR WARS: The Force Awakens- and aside from being very, very funny, simply proves that I was correct in every single way when I ripped that movie to shreds for being a colossal waste of time and celluloid. No two ways about it-...

“Guns don’t protect people”, my arse

It would appear that the more the gun-grabbers want us to believe the comforting lie that guns in private hands cannot protect people, the less reason we have to believe them: On February 18, female convenience store clerk Seul Lim exchanged gunfire with a would-be...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Remember the worldwide media furore that erupted a couple of months back when Roosh V proposed a series of entirely peaceful and completely legal meet-ups between members of the global alt-right community? It started because social justice warriors conned first...

Comments

I’ve noticed recently that a couple of reader comments got caught up in the spam filter and needed to be fished out. It is therefore worth clarifying a couple of points with regard to reader comments. Now, my longstanding policy toward comments is very simple:...

Jomsviking

The almighty AMON AMARTH’s latest studio album was released a few days ago. This is their first album without longtime drummer Freidrik Anderssen in something like 17 years- since Once Sent From the Golden Hall, I think. I’m about halfway through the album...

Preach it, Novak

Yeah. Totally equal in terms of achievements. The world’s greatest tennis player at the moment- who is increasingly becoming a real threat to Roger Federer’s peerless status as the “Greatest Of All Time”- recently made some quite innocuous...

Happy Easter 2016

After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.  2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on...

‘Ere we go, ‘ere we go, ‘ere we go!!!

Fellow Vile Faceless Minions, take heed and make haste, for the time to nominate works for the Hugo Awards 2016 is upon us! Ballots for nominations can only be made up until midnight, March 31st, so get your ballots in as soon as you can. Here is the list that I...