“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.”

Run, hamster, run

A former blonde “bombshell” projects her own insecurities on married couples: She has romanced some of the world’s most sought-after men, from Matt Dillon to Justin Timberlake, but none has been able to tame her [Didact: I’m already seeing a...

Gettin’ rid of the varmints

This is how you resist unwarranted aggression and overbearing intrusions from the Federal government: Citing safety concerns, federal agents are withdrawing from the Nevada cattle ranch where they had engaged in a week-long showdown with Cliven Bundy, a...

Book Review: The Lotus Eaters by Tom Kratman

Seeing as it’s been a couple of months since I last bothered posting a proper review about something, I figured it’s high time I fixed that little problem and got on with writing about some of the books and good music that I’ve enjoyed recently. Col....

Individual thought patterns

[This post might take its name from one of the greatest and most important death metal albums ever produced, but it has no overarching theme or specific purpose. It’s just a catalog of thoughts and ideas stemming from a recent trip.] The Healing Road I love...

Hitting The Wall at 100mph

There was an article over at RoK a while back talking about how it is small-minded and venal to root for a beautiful but bitchy woman to get her comeuppance in the form of “hitting the wall”: In today’s world, The Wall can generally be summed up as the...

“Programming is hard…”

“… so we’ll make it easier specifically to attract more women to it! What a brain wave!” Yes, we know there aren’t enough women in tech. [Didact: According to what metric, exactly? Other than the author’s ridiculous view that men and...

Non-Mozilla browsing options

If you’re annoyed enough by this whole Brandon Eich situation, you might consider switching away from Mozilla-provided web browsers completely, and start using Mozilla-based, but independently developed, browsers instead. Here is a small shortlist of some that...

Another reason not to watch late-night comedy

Oh great, yet another snarky left-wing comic “genius” to replace the one that’s retiring: Colbert’s contract with Comedy Central, where he hosts The Colbert Report, runs through the end of 2014, the website notes, which would leave an opening...

The Mozilla mess

So Mozilla CEO Brendon Eich stepped down this week because of internal backlash over his political contributions to a group that supported a state-level ban on gay marriage: The decision to remove the man who invented the web scripting language JavaScipt did not sit...