“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.”

Bugger this for a bag of Wookie-ookies!

Via our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) comes two bits of news that can only be described as “so incredibly stupid that they make the Death Star’s design flaws look sensible”. The first one concerns the “established canonical...

The Balkan solution

Remember that Mel Gibson period-piece film, The Patriot, which actually was a rather good, if somewhat inaccurate, stylised portrayal of the battle for American independence in the southern colonies? Do y’all remember that scene where the colonial Congress of...

Ownage

It used to be easy for me to insult the New York F***ing Times by calling them ПРАВДА, which those of you who know your history will recognise as the state-run newspaper in Soviet times whose name meant, hilariously, “truth” in Russian. The Russkies...

“They’re farmers with pitchforks!”

In the wake of Robert Francis Shamrocks Padraig Kilkenny Guinness Begorrah O’Meara Shillelagh O’Rourke’s strident insistence that the Daemoncrats absolutely will come and take your guns, Paul Ramsey provides a pessimistic Gen-X Hard Right take...

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...

Have you ever been so far Left…

… that your eye exploded while you were giving a proper harangue onstage? Former Vice President Joe Biden’s left eye filled with blood while he was onstage Wednesday during a CNN town hall on climate change, apparently from a burst vessel. Biden was in the...

The Constitutional Conservative Fantasy

Once again I find myself reading far, far too many books – though at a greatly reduced speed, for various reasons – and once again, one of those books is thought-provoking enough to prompt a deeper look. While this is not intended as a book...

Domain Query: Do electric sheep dream of androids?

Longtime reader Kapios posited an interesting series of points and a thought-provoking question in response to my post about how the future belongs to those who bother to show up for it: Problem is the quality of the population as you pointed out. But instead of using...

FREDO!!!

I’m a bit late to this particular party, as usual, but it would appear that Chris Cuomo – brother of the current Governor of Noo Yoark, son of previous Governor Mario Cuomo, and currently working as an anchor at the Clown News Network – got a bit...