“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 Feast of the Emperor’s Ascension

The long-awaited day has dawned, brothers. Today, Donald J. Trump became the 45th President of the United States of America. There was a time when I thought that I would never, ever hear those words. The very idea that this fleshy, coarse, bouffant-haired,...

It’s not science-fiction anymore

In the sci-fi anthology Riding the Red Horse, Vol. 1, the very first story in that set was a work by Eric S. Raymond called “Sucker Punch”, in which Mr. Raymond provided an idea of what future naval and air warfare would look like the day that...

Attagirl

Chaps, remember how, back in late November, there was a really rather fetching young woman who promised to blow any man who voted “No” in Italy’s constitutional reform referendum? Which then won in a landslide and forced Prime Minister Matteo Renzi...

It can’t be that hard to figure out

A bloke named Sebastian Shakespeare, who writes for the Daily Mail, is having a bit of trouble with a basic fact of reality: How does Jeremy Clarkson do it? Looking bleary-eyed and clad in an open-necked shirt that did little to disguise his middleaged paunch, the...

Don’t be a basic bitch

Still good advice even as we call time on 2016: There is, by the way, a similar standard for blokes: The lesson to take away here is that you’re not going to impress anyone by being such a special snowflake that you end up simply doing whatever all of the...

Hell just froze over

More or less literally: The Sahara Desert experienced its first snowfall in thirty-seven years, according to images taken Monday afternoon.  It is the first time since February 1979 that snow has fallen in Ain Sefra, Algeria, a town in the Sahara Desert, the...

The cynicism bites deep

In his election night broadcast, Bill Whittle mentioned toward the end of his highly entertaining, if somewhat rambling, God-Emperor Victory speech that he had very recently gotten engaged. He promised to follow up on that and introduce his fans to his fiance, and on...

The price of female freedom

The New York Times The Carlos Slim Blog Pravda published what they call an “op-doc”, which I suppose is Millennial hipster talk for “first-person documentary”, a few years back featuring a 35-year-old single Argentinian Jewess and...

A possibly severe case of intellectualism

Courtesy of reader and friend LastRedoubt, I came across a rather amusing article by Nassim Taleb concerning the dangers of the Intellectual Yet Idiot- the acronym for which sounds remarkably similar to a Yiddish expression of annoyance: What we have been seeing...