“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 MAGA hats

Aaaargh… It’s Monday again. That being said – this past week was a pretty good one, for there were a great many displays of wonderful patriotism and love of nation, and the fighting men who make a nation strong. So get your MAGA hats out, boys,...

Five years sure feels “Infinite”

The new HALO INFINITE trailer dropped yesterday. I’ll just shut up now and let you absorb the awesomeness: Right. Here is my sober, calm, carefully weighed, objective, and totally unbiased reaction to this trailer: ‘MURICA. The God-Emperor, Donaldus...

The God Pill

Another journeyman finds his way from the truths of our time to the TRUTH of all of time: Several of my fellow brothers in Christ have noted this good news – and it is good news, the very best of news, even for those who previously excoriated Dave...

Carry on, Andre

I did not expect to wake up this morning and discover that Andre Matos, who was possibly the most famous power metal vocalist in all of Brazil, had died at the age of 47: Former Angra frontman André Matos, who made his start with Viper in 1987, has died at age 47....

It could always be worse

No matter how much your day sucks, just remember – you might be going on a caravan holiday with these guys: Of course, if you are actually a caravan… well, sorry dude, you’re boned. I mean, I don’t know how you’re reading this if...

Friday T&A: Milkshakes Edition

Here we are at the end of another week – for some of you, a week of productive endeavour and happy days, and for others perhaps a week of yet more broken promises and cheap tricks by those you thought were trustworthy. That is the nature of the game, my friends;...

The jaws of Hell

June 6th, 1944. It’s hard to believe that it has been 75 years since over a million men landed on the shores of Normandy to begin an all-out Western assault on Nazi Germany. I remember quite vividly the pictures and videos being shown on CNN –...

Domain Query: Partition is inevitable

The Grand Strategikon and Excruciator Majoris of the Evil Legion of Evil had some interesting points to make with respect to my Memorial Day post: You listen to certain members of the alt-right too much. We’re too frigging geographically intertwined to break up...

A comment on comments

I have been receiving vastly greater amounts of anonymous spam commentary over the past few months than I had been previously. As a result, I have become extremely aggressive about simply deleting out any anonymous comments. So if you wrote a comment to one of my...

Now that’s a bloody brilliant idea

Apparently it’s the 30th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and Steven Hayward over at Power Line had an interesting brainwave to help commemorate the tragedy: Almost 12 or 15 years ago now I was teaching a class at Georgetown as a visiting lecturer,...