“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.”

The turducken plane

I got a couple of different messages about the latest episode of the flying disaster-reality show that is the F-35 Joint Strike Flying Piano from my readers, so I figured I might as well write something about it (again). And the latest news about the F-35 isn’t...

The dangers of an edifice complex

Trawling through teh BoobToobz on a Saturday evening is usually a dreary experience, but sometimes you do come across a gem or two that makes the effort worthwhile. One of these popped into my feed, thanks to the YouTube algorithms that evidently have noticed that I...

Corona-chan comes for you

To my complete lack of surprise, a major new potential pandemic has reared its ugly head thanks, yet again, to the Chinese. I was there in Singapore in the summer of 2003 when SARS hit. I saw firsthand exactly what that disaster did to the region’s economy in...

The tragedy of MGTOW

Dave from Blue Collar Logic offers up some cogent and powerful thoughts on the MGTOW movement, which are very much worth reading through in full: Dave there has far more reason than most to subscribe to the MGTOW movement – which he doesn’t. He has been...

Simps gonna simp

Chaps, remember when, as our friend 1st Sgt Terrence Popp (USArmy, Ret) put it in a truly hilarious video from very nearly a year ago, “Jeff Bezos lost half his pesos”? Turns out that his phone got hacked after he got a “malicious...

The girl from Kharkiv

A recent story in everyone’s favourite daily large-circulation tabloid caught my eye concerning a young woman from Ukraine who decided to sell her virginity for about US$1.4 MILLION, mostly because it serves as both confirmation and warning of some very painful...

Vostok beats Fossil, every time

If you know anything about watches and watchmakers, the phrase “Russian watch” probably fills you with incredulous amusement. It should not be possible for the Russians to make a watch that is: A) Totally reliable; B) Extremely rugged; C) Very good value...

RIP Neil Peart

I’m pretty late to this one because I don’t often check my RSS feed for Blabbermouth.net. But I checked it this morning – and felt like I’d been gut-punched. Neil Peart, perhaps the most influential drummer of modern times, is dead. He died at...

“Harry and the Half-Blood Princess”, indeed

The title of this post is a direct reference to a classic missive by our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Vox Day, who wrote back at the end of November 2017 – more than two years ago – that he expected that “young” (he’s my...

The Africa Conundrum

A very charming and earnest white chap has been worrying over that old bone of contention, namely, how to fix Africa’s incessant problems, and comes up with a novel solution – add MORE white people: Possibly the biggest misconception about Africans,...