“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.”

“It’s not that we don’t like you…”

… it’s just that, as introverts, we can’t effing stand you: Nothing personal, you understand, but “other people” give us the psychological equivalent of a severe outbreak of hives. In fact, one of the best quotes I’ve ever read...

Islam: What the West Needs to Know

Given that the Danes are the latest in a long line of recipients of Islamic peace and brotherly tolerance, I’d say it’s about high time that the useful idiots of this world got their noses rubbed into the realities of Islam’s origins, good and hard....

Insanity test

Bullshido 101 Hey, quick, tell me how you know when someone is completely bat-crap crazy. My answer is probably slightly different: You know when someone is bonkers when his idea of fun is to smash his shins into a heavy bag as hard as he possibly can for ten minutes...

Hymn Before Action by Rudyard Kipling

I just finished reading John Ringo’s outstanding first novel in the Legacy of the Aldenata series, A Hymn Before Battle. Aside from being a terrific writer and a clearly highly literate man, Mr. Ringo is a HUGE Kipling fan. As I’ve stated before, I...

What Valentine’s Day looks like…

… to those of us who aren’t blinded by its nonsense: Valentine’s Day! It’s the shallowest, greediest exploitation of emotions since my second marriage. It’s not even a real holiday- you know that, don’t you? It was created by an...

Domain Query: Fun with numbers

Who says maths is boring? Sean Carnegie had some intriguing thoughts to contribute to my own write-up about a woman who has banged more than ten thousand men: For comparison, it’s said that every time an NFL player gets hit (I would assume only being a ball...

She’s certainly shaking something

What happens when you put a Taylor Swift single into an atom-smasher along with polka music and a metal shredfest? Well… this: (Kindly sent to me by Carey) I think I might have ruptured something laughing so hard. There is a particularly priceless moment right...

Because SCIENCE

Science: what scientists THINK they do Get this, folks- it turns out that saturated fat isn’t quite as horrible for you as we’ve all been told to believe it was. Indeed, the expert consensus that we were told was stamped and ratified by governments...

Battleship: HALO-style

Now THAT is how HALO should be played Looks like we’ll have an all-new way to play HALO battles- right on our tabletops: Spartan Games has entered into a License Agreement with Microsoft Corporation to design and produce tabletop miniatures games for...