“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 men need to fight

If you have not yet read Jonathan Gotschall’s excellent book, The Professor in the Cage, I cannot recommend it highly enough. I finished it a few days ago, and I’m very pleased to say that I have finally found a book that clearly articulates exactly why it...

It makes an odd kind of sense

Courtesy of Text From Dog, a highly subversive time-waster of a link that my highly subversive colleague sent me while we were both bored out of our gourds on a conference call today: Oh but wait, there are more: BACON IS ALWAYS AN OPTION Two can play this dastardly...

Selfie-to-English translator

Services provided by a girl, no less- a very cute one: This should put paid to any silly notions that uninformed men might have about the purposes of selfies. Women take these stupid things to draw attention to themselves. That is their entire point. I have never...

A vodka shot too far

So there I was, rocking out to some awesome power metal and generally enjoying life with a decent bottle of alcohol handy, when I stumbled across something that made me sit up and question my own sanity: After recovering from the initial shock of WTFness, I had...

Beer rhymes with…

I know I’m going to piss off something like 98% of all Americans by posting this, but… well, I just don’t much like beer. Unless it’s a really good India Pale Ale. Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook...

Guns are the great equaliser

It’s crucial to remember that, no matter how many black belts you have, no matter how skilled you are at street-fighting, no matter how well you can prepare yourself, a bullet to the head is still a bullet to the head: It’s a sad day for Brazilian...

Guest Post: The narrative is wrong

A fellow Vile Faceless Minion commented at some length on my post from the other day regarding the recent shooting in Charleston, SC. I judged his comments to be worthy of their own full-length post. I present those comments here with minimal editing and cleanup...

Awakening the World

I discovered this forgotten yet amazing band a few days ago while rocking out to the new track from UNLEASH THE ARCHERS. These guys could have been the next HELLOWEEN or GAMMA RAY, back in the day, but for whatever reason, they stalled and crashed after just two...

Try to keep calm, everyone…

… and treat this announcement with the decoHOLY MOTHER OF GOD THE NEW IRON MAIDEN ALBUM IS FINALLY GOING TO SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY!!! IRON MAIDEN’s eagerly awaited new studio album, “The Book Of Souls”, will be released globally on September...

Leave the flag alone

My little sister, being considerably more emotional and therefore more liberal than I am, sent me a link to a write-up by a chap named Ta-Nehisi Coates in the wake of the church slaying down in Charleston, demanding the immediate removal of the Confederate flag from...