“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.”

Go on then, tell us another one, Al

By now it should be readily apparent to anyone living in the northern latitudes with a pair of functioning eyes and the ability to feel cold that the drumbeat of predictions about the Great Manmade Global Warming Apocalypse were seriously exaggerated: Professor Mike...

Speaking of racial insensitivity…

Now I’m in full agreement with Vox and everyone else that the guy who pranked the entire world at Nelson Mandela’s funeral deserves some kind of Nobel Prize, or an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, or at least a goddamn Most Epic Moon-Sized Testicles...

Home and away

Lord, but it is good to be home at last. I landed this morning after a looooong trip over from the States and am now thoroughly enjoying a quiet day spent at home with my dear mum, before we both fly out again tonight to meet my dad. Suffice to say that after a...

How to ruin your little sister’s childhood

Everyone has his or her own favourite Disney movie. Mine was always Robin Hood, for a number of reasons (mostly the hysterically funny fight scene in the middle, and also because of this song). My sister’s, on the other hand, was The Lion King. She spent an...

Finding Femininity

Stephanie has a new blog up, which in her own words, “is more of a Red Pill blog like Vox but for women. Dealing with femininity instead masculinity.The same ideas of self improvement and social issues.” There’s only one post on it as of right now,...

Come and get them, assholes

New York City’s outgoing mayor is now planning to ramp up his city’s longstanding and utterly misbegotten war against the universal right of self-defence: The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is sending out letters telling gun owners to turn over...

Speeding gets you killed…

… but not in the way you would normally think: SAN ANTONIO — A University of the Incarnate Word police officer shot and killed a 23-year-old student during a traffic stop Friday morning, just a few blocks north from the campus, according to the Alamo...

Apparently someone important died this week…

If I didn’t know better, I’d say that I’m the only one on the whole damn planet who isn’t completely devastated by the passing of one Nelson Mandela. Fortunately, I do know better: Richard Stengel, a former TIME reporter who worked closely with...

Domain Query: Careers for physicists

pumpsix is mulling over his options post-graduation: The reason why I as is because I am plugging away at a degree in physics. I am just trying to figure out where I want to take it – definitely not academia. I am currently thinking about going into...