“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.”

SkyNet awakens

The latest developments from the company that hypocritically tells itself, and us, not to be evil, are pretty damned impressive – and equally creepy: Google today opened its annual I/O developer bash with details of how it’s going to lob machine-learning...

Brother knows best

With the pending nuptials of the ginger-haired younger Windsor royal to the Half-Blood Princess coming up, Meghan Markle’s half-brother has penned a rather dire, and probably quite timely, warning to Prince Harry: Dear Prince Harry, It’s not too late, Meghan...

Bullshido by any other name…

… still smells just as foul: I came across that Marie Claire “self-defence” video for wimmenz sometime last year, I think. One of the black belt instructors at my school saw that in his Instagram feed and showed it to a gang of us while we were...

Can’t argue with that

I have to admit, it is extremely difficult for me to choose which one of these categories I support and agree with the most. A world without any one of those four things is a world that I do not want to live in. While we are on the subject of things that...

Domain Query: Import more of X…

Commenter Dire Badger had some quite germane thoughts to add with respect to immigration and multiculturalism to my post the other day about certain adversities that I have encountered: Indians who grew up in India have a culture that is PROFOUNDLY different from...

The ISIS goat rodeo

The rat-bastards of ISIS decided to have a go at filming a training montage – inside a mosque in Afghanistan, no less – and the results were… well, somewhat less than stellar: Now don’t get me wrong, as far as I’m concerned every last one...

Domain Query: Mansplaining required

Some chick named Alicia Bennett – I am assuming her gender identity based on her profile page – stopped by to leave a comment from a post from over 3 years ago which I thought was worth sharing: Cute and all but, this contest isn’t about beauty 🙂...

Semper Fi, Gunny

Dammit… Statement from R. Lee Ermey’s long time manager, Bill Rogin: It is with deep sadness that I regret to inform you all that R. Lee Ermey (“The Gunny”) passed away this morning from complications of pneumonia. He will be greatly missed by...

Monday morning grumpies

It’s an absolutely hideous day outside in terms of the weather both in the Northeast and the Midwest – though over here it’s just disgustingly wet, to the point where you have to swim everywhere. Farther west, I gather they got hit with a...

Severe burn treatment needed

A particularly brutal truth of game is delivered to David Hogg right between the eyes in the most personal way possible by a Twatterer: Also, Roosh is not too far off – Nasim Aghdam really does look like Daryush Valizadeh might without a beard, if you...