“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.”

Didactic Mind, Ep 11: New Year’s Irresolutions

Didactic Mind, Ep 11: New Year’s Irresolutions

The latest episode of Didactic Mind is up. This week I talk about the pointlessness of New Year’s “Resolutions”, and propose a far more effective way of getting what you want instead – by setting goals and achievements and building good...

Domain Query: The subcontinental SMV wasteland

Reader Johnny has been chewing the gristle off that old bone of contention as to what it is like living in a country with almost no hot women: Sorry, I still have a horrified fascination with the SMV hellhole that India represents. The question is, which man is it...

Sharpen your hunting knives

It’s Monday, and as much as I wish that we could make it a happy one – or at least, not depressing, which I’d be willing to settle for at this point. But unfortunately, we can’t do that. The reason why is very simple. It turns out that just a...

The Friend-Zone Anthem

For a variety of reasons I recently found myself sitting in a cafe in a country where they serve REALLY good coffee – unlike in the old country where coffee culture is a very new thing and as a result the taste is absolutely dreadful. Now, the cafe that we...

Let your yes be yes and your no be no

Vernon Thorpe over at The Unz Review shreds Little Benny Shapiru’s ongoing bullshitting about “Judaeo-Christian values” with considerable skill and eviscerates The Littlest Chickenhawk’s intellectual pretensions with a savagery...

Corporate chemotherapy

Our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH), Voxemort the Malevolent, is not someone that you want to piss off. You would think that, after being defeated and humiliated in epic and repeated fashion by the SDL and his legions, his enemies would learn from...

Back to the kitchen, dearie

I’m on the road for a while and so posts may be a little sporadic, but I couldn’t resist cracking up when I saw this particular article in – of course – The Daily Mail, about a very young academic who received an award for her research into...

Captain Save-A-Ho needs a red-pill suppository

The basic truths of the red pill sometimes have to be administered rectally in order for men to realise that they are true: A woman who started an affair with a former fling just four months after she got married has revealed why she ultimately chose to remain...

Domain Query: Search for the truth

Longtime reader Dire Badger tried out an interesting experiment with respect to search engines in response to my recent post about the follies of outsourcing work to India: You were right about Yandex. My Russian is not great (5 years of Russian in School taught me...