“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.”

Monday morning Dark Knight dialogue

I hate Mondays. And this Monday, I have to go apply for a British visa. You Yankees are fortunate enough not to have to go through the sheer misery – and expense – of this horrid process. Let me tell you, it is PAINFUL. The only visas that are worse...

A pure cheese diet

I do love me some power metal, but this is a bit too much cheese even for me: This is the inevitable and logical result of unleashing bands like ALESTORM, GLORYHAMMER, and GRAILKNIGHTS. God help us, what have we done?!?! THE WORLD SHALL DROWN IN GLORIOUS EPIC...

Friday T&A: Kiwi Peel Edition

Well, here we are at another Friday, and here it’s dreary, wet, and miserable. However, down in the Antipodes… it’s even more dreary, wet, and miserable, because this is winter for them down in Australia and New Zealand. So, to cheer up the folks...

NYC needs some serious global warming

See, now this is what happens when you outsource the code that controls your temperature readings to Indians on H-1Bs: Hand to God, that is an absolutely real screenshot, taken at about 5.48am EST, from Accuweather.com. I haven’t lived in the USA for over a...

Rules don’t matter in a failing nation

His Most Beneficent and Legendary Astral Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus, recently caused some really severe ass-pain for a bunch of “Americans” originally from the Dirt World who just happen to be freshmen Congresscritters...

The Trillion-Dollar AWACS

I have been an extremely harsh critic of the F-35, especially the VTOL version for the Marine Corps, for years. But it would appear that there is some reason to think that the F-35 might just come good after all – under a very, very specific set of mission...

Monday morning making an ass

It’s Monday again. Yeah, I know, man. I feel the same way, and it can be summed up in three letters: “F. M. L.” Fortunately, your good friend the Didact is here to make it all better by amusing, edumacating, and diverting you. So let’s get...

This is why women’s football sucks

The USA women’s football team won the World Cup recently, and like pretty much everyone else here, I really couldn’t give a shit about that. In fact, one of my readers, with whom I am in fairly regular contact, told me a rather good joke related to them....

Friday T&A: Heat Rising Edition

Here we are at another Friday, and over here where I am, it’s cold, wet, rainy, and generally just downright disgusting – at the height of summer. Nonetheless, despite the horrible weather, it is of course time to post up pictures of a hot girl to get...

What fresh heresy is this?!?!

Jeff Cavaliere put together a very thorough and well-informed breakdown of what, at first, seems like truly batshit insane advice from an elite-level powerlifter: Now, like many of you, when I first heard the guy say that most people who aren’t doing...