“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 Choice by Rudyard Kipling

#BREXIT!!! In honour of this momentous occasion, let the Poet-Laureate of the British Empire give tongue to what has happened: To the Judge of Right and Wrong  With Whom fulfilment lies  Our purpose and our power belong,  Our faith and sacrifice. ...

Lessons from my father

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance...

“Save the whales…”

Apparently there will soon be a “naked restaurant” opening in Japan- and NO FAT CHICKS (or chubby dudes) are allowed: Japan’s first “naked restaurant” opens in Tokyo next month with draconian rules of entry — podgy prospective diners will be weighed and...

These idiots still don’t get it

There is no disguising it any more- the Third Great Jihad is here, now, within America’s shores: In appearance on Fox News Channel on Sunday, Breitbart National Security senior editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka reacted to the mass shooting in Orlando, FL early...

Bullshido deserves a face-punch

There is precisely one legitimate reaction to the claims of a so-called “energy field master” that he can block any incoming attack by generating a “chi shield”: This is the moment a no touch ‘energy shield master’ receives a heavy...

Flop Gear

To precisely nobody’s surprise, the “new and improved” TOP GEAR sucks harder than your housekeeper’s vacuum cleaner: The BBC show, presented by Chris Evans, has fallen below 3 million viewers for its second episode of the new...

CrossFit: Not Even Once

Your local CrossFit box: where common sense, good form, and GAINS all go to die. I was out yesterday with some buddies from my martial arts school for a few beers, and the CrossFit Question came up. One of the guys is a pharmacist, and he told us that a lot of people...

Apology accepted, Captain Needa

How Lord Vader reacted when J. J. Abrams told him what a crybaby his grandson had turned into Apparently the latest blatant shameless useless naked Disney cash grab STAR WARS spin-off is not turning out to be quite as brilliant as the Mousketeers had...

HALO became “safe”, that’s what

A fellow HALO maniac asks the question that is on the minds of a great many fans of the series these days: The full video raises a number of interesting points about what I consider, still, to be simply the greatest franchise in the history of gaming. Yes, I know,...