“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.”

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Does anyone know how to say, "from my cold dead hands!" in Hawaiian? Hawaii state senator Will Espero (D-19) is pushing a gun owner database that the state will share with the Federal Bureau of...

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RIP Nick Menza

Damn. I did NOT expect to wake up yesterday and read this headline: Menza was performing with the band OHM at the Baked Potato in Studio City, CA when he reportedly collapsed from a heart attack....

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AWESOMESAUCE

Commenter Kapios sent over some (as it turns out, old) news that is actually some of the best I've seen in months: Unfortunately, the news that Clarkson, Hammond, and May are all going to be on...

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“Ticking bomb”

I don't hold much with mainstream music, but I'll make an exception for this one song: I actually came across it while binge-watching a truly brilliant crime drama series called Longmire. Now...

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Black Betty

Classic RAM JAM track:Southern deep-fried rock just doesn't get much better than that- at least not this side of LYNYRD SKYNYRD, or CREEDENCE.

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The MAGA anthem

Courtesy of some bloke called @BakedAlaska: Well, he's sure as hell baked on something. And the excessive use of autotune is, to a purist like me, highly irritating; as far as I'm concerned, if I...

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Stick with the classics

There are certain pairs that just go perfectly together somehow- tea and biscuits (for those of us from civilised parts of the world, where the Godly and lawful sovereignty of Her Majesty the Queen...

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The Trumpening and its doubters

mp3 raised an interesting point with respect to the ascension of Trump-Muad'dib: Perhaps I have become very jaded and cynical. I am skeptical about everything. The 90's were the best period in the...

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