“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.”

Grunt-work

Do YOU have what it takes to join Her Majesty’s Royal Marines? I’ll be very honest here: I sure as Hell couldn’t have passed that test, when I was 18. I was very fat and quite slow and my cardiovascular endurance was piss-poor. A year and a bit of...

Monday morning license to shill

Monday. Eugh. Well, let’s make the best of it. And this week, actually, there is a lot of good stuff, because this post is basically a big collaboration between me and our friend The Male Brain, who sent over a whole bunch of videos about all the things wrong...

The broken tools

Original painting by John McNaughton Normally I would just post up some Scripture and leave things there, but two heavy questions have been pressing on my mind for some time now and I wish to take some moments to address them. The first concerns a rather knotty and...

Friday T&A: Pho Metal Jacket Edition

Ah, Friday. The best working day of them all. Mind you, that’s not a difficult choice – there are only 5 to choose from. Yet another one of them is upon us, to be greeted with joy and revelry, of course – unless you are a Daemoncrat, in which case...

How the swamp works

Until His Most August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra*, came along and completely overturned the apple-cart of the political establishment, we never really had a good term to describe the way...

The Forever War

In most civilised nations, eighteen years is the span of time required for a child to go from a squalling wailing helpless little blob, through to the wobbly walking and falling over stage, up to actual controlled movement and motion, onward into having a real...

Bye bye, Johnny

The swamp-draining carries on: President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has terminated National Security Advisor John Bolton from his position, citing strong disagreement on “many of his suggestions” regarding foreign policy. “I informed John Bolton last night...

The Great Squat Debate

There has been a debate raging in lifting circles for many years about the difference between low-bar and high-bar squats. And, honestly, from the perspective of actual lifters – rather than spergy nerds wanking in forums for teh lulz – it’s...

Monday morning mollywhoppery

Lord, please make Monday go away. *bows head and prays* Aw, dammit, STILL Monday. Oh well. Let’s get on with it, then. This past weekend saw a highly anticipated clash between the two best lightweights in the UFC. One, of course, was a bit more...

The middle age of the Middle Kingdom

It has become very clear over the past few years that Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilisations” hypothesis was eerily prescient, and that China will indeed become one of the primary belligerents in a roughly five-way global conflict. The Chinese,...