“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.”

Ghost Rider

In 1998, Neil Peart, the greatest goddamn drummer of all ti- er, I mean, the drummer and lyricist of RUSH, lost his daughter in a freak accident as she was driving to college. Shortly after that, he lost his wife to cancer, though he maintained that she died from a...

At least the Euzis are honest

Evil bastards and loonies they may well be, but in their own minds, at least, they mean well:  A campaign for the European Union to become a “United States of Europe” will be the “best weapon against the Eurosceptics”, one of...

Submission is good for women

Did you ever read Asterix comics as a kid? I did. I still do. There is one particular favourite of mine called Asterix and the Secret Weapon. It is one of the funniest and most brilliantly insightful jabs at feminism that you will ever see- and chances are that you...

Everyone hates omegas

A woman by the name of Alli Reed who apparently had a bit too much time on her hands recently decided to run a little thought experiment by testing the limits of betatude among male users of online dating services to the very limit- and beyond: As a child of the...

Welcome to the Great Frozen North

Look up “irony” in the dictionary, and this is what you’ll see So I landed back in the (formerly) Land of the Free last Saturday morning, after a quite painful and arduous 26-hour journey halfway across the world, jet-lagged out of my mind, to find...

Intellectual cowardice

It’s very rare for an American politician, of any party, to speak truthfully in public these days. I have a few minor differences with Col. Allen West (US Army, Ret.), but for the most part I’d say he’s one of the few genuine conservatives who really...

“Doing the laundry is tiring”

There are many good reasons to listen to NIGHTWISH: Floor Jansen Marco Hietala Floor Jansen The instrumental skill Floor Jansen The songwriting (when Tuomas Huolopainen doesn’t have his head stuck too far up his own ass, that is- see “Song of Myself”...

A picture is worth 575,000 words

Apparently, the entire Twihard Saga contains approximately 575,100 words in total. And yes, I do want returned to my life the five seconds or so that I spent Googling that. Which is why we all owe a great debt of gratitude to the fine people over at Cracked.com...

A Single Dude on Indian women…

Charlie Bushmeister had some highly amusing commentary from his recent trip to India: I have been to 50 countries now, and I can say without reservation that India is the absolute worst place for women I have even been. I can think of no place less suitable for a...

Israel aborts its future

Of all of the countries in the world, I didn’t expect the land of Moses to support something that goes directly against one of the oldest ideas in the Bible: In 2014, the government of Israel will pay to abort babies for any woman aged 20 to 33 regardless...