“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.”

Domain Query: Fun With Numbers, Sloot-Hunter Edition

Reader Chad Tyrone stopped by to offer his observations in response to a post that I wrote a long while back about how it is tragic to see a woman hit the dreaded Wall: The man who wrote this must be from an older generation. That’s ok. It’s just that it’s hard for...

Big Brother doesn’t need to watch you

In China, at least, all he has to do is to look at your mobile phone’s data. And, yes, in case you are wondering – yes, the ChiComs are a particularly impressive kind of high-tech evil: I am in the middle of re-reading 1984, for the first time since high...

Blue-on-red

I’ve been banging on for some time now about how the USA is a dying empire inhabiting the footprint of a long-destroyed nation, and will eventually split apart into at least three separate constituents. I have gotten considerable pushback on this subject from...

Domain Query: The insufficiency inequation

Longtime reader and friend of the blog Eduardo the Magnificent had an interesting comment to add to my last post about the MGTOW movement: Vox gets half the equation right. While MGTOW has its points, its not a movement that’s going to solve any problems....

Fighting the zombie plague

Our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) has had some rather interesting things to say about the Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) crowd over the past few days, and boy has he been copping some stick for those remarks: It is very interesting indeed to hear His...

Cartoon metal

I was planning to start this post off with a couple of videos from a really great melodic black metal band – steady, boys, they’re actually very good – called BELZEBUBS. Now, I know this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea; they ARE a bunch of...

Hand up if you’re surprised

The F-35 Joint Strike Flying Piano is sort of like a slow-motion car crash: utterly horrifying as a whole, oddly fascinating in its little details, and you cannot stop yourself from staring at the awful spectacle of its self-inflicted demise, even though you know...

Being stubborn gets you to the top

Simon Sinek takes some time to explain how leadership works properly: He’s right. The single most important quality in your life that will turbocharge it and allow you to achieve great things is not actually talent. It is consistency. You have to...

Myth, busted

There is this old joke about the American space program, which people usually bring up around (!@#$%^&*) Tax Day, that goes something like this: When NASA started sending astronauts into space, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero...

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....