“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.”

Because they’re fat, dammit

(Credit goes to El Capitan for finding this little gem.) Apparently our intrepid Benevolent Government Overlords are now spending damn-near half a million dollars to figure out why fat girls can’t get dates: The federal government is spending nearly a half a...

The real “no can defend” kick

How do you cartwheel through someone’s face bones while making it look as elegant and yet terrifying as possible? Pretty much like these guys do it: It is hard to think of something that is such a splendid combination of badassery, buttock-clenching terror, and...

Explaining the Porsche 911 range

With boobs and bikinis: And that, gentlemen, is why Top Gear is the greatest TV series OF. ALL. TIME. There is NO discussion on this subject. Not now, not ever. You’re welcome. Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in...

Trinity

What happens when you take the three greatest singers in the history of heavy metal, get them all standing on the same stage, and singing a brutal three-minute blowout? Well… this: Hear that? It was the sound of your brain assploding from the sheer...

An African future

Via good ol’ Derb over at Taki’s place, take a look at this projection of the world’s population over the next 50-odd years: “Charty goodness”, as ye olde Capitaine would say… Basically, by 2100, Asians and Africans will dominate...

“Unfair” should be a banned word

Didact Sr. sent me an interesting article showing that the Swiss still, for the moment at least, have their heads screwed on right when it comes to the never-ending and frankly pointless debate about who should pay for health care: Swiss voters on Sunday rejected...

Why the love-fest?

One of the more odd character traits that can be observed among Americans- across all shades of the political spectrum- is a curious fascination with meddling in Israel’s domestic and foreign affairs. If I didn’t know (at least slightly) better, I...

Educated fools

The venerable Prof. Ian Plimer- perhaps best known for his vociferous, uncompromising, and (usually) rigourous take-downs of the pseudoscience that is most properly known as the “Anthropogenic Global Warming” theory- had some typically blunt things to say...

A case study in incompetence

As if the flu wasn’t bad enough, now we have an actual haemorrhagic fever imported straight from Africa to deal with: Schoolchildren in Texas may be at risk from Ebola today after five children who attend four different Dallas schools came in close contact with...