“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.”

Popcorn time

Popcorn time

If you attempted to access the website of Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Vox Day the Most Merciless and Terrible, you will undoubtedly have noticed the graphic above when you land on his page. Special thanks to reader and friend JohnC911 for bringing...
Train CrossShit, lose wars

Train CrossShit, lose wars

I’ve been banging on for a while now about how the US military couldn’t win so much as an egg-and-spoon race at this point, much less an actual shooting war with China or, especially, Russia. Few, if any, of my readers disagree with me – including...
Armed and fabulous

Armed and fabulous

Does anyone remember a hilarious low-budget 90s comedy film called Down Periscope, starring Kelsey Grammer and Lauren Holly? I do – quite well, actually. It’s a funny, if inconsistent and somewhat badly acted, film: The trailer is actually almost as funny...
What it’s like to have the Kung Flu

What it’s like to have the Kung Flu

For those of you who have been wondering why the output around here has slowed so dramatically over the past few weeks, it is not merely because I have been busy with work and other things. The truth is that I was sick as a dog for about 2 weeks. The symptoms all...
Men are better at EVERYTHING

Men are better at EVERYTHING

That is not a hyperbolic headline. It turns out that we really are the best at everything that women excel at doing, including beauty pageants now: Kataluna Enriquez, 27, has forged the way. She won Miss Nevada at an event in Las Vegas on Sunday, and has her sights...
The great Izzlamic swindle

The great Izzlamic swindle

This week saw the one-year anniversary of the infamous “holes in the narrative” interview that rocked the Izzlamic world to its very core. Given that LRFotS Sasha Hrongmitts has been after me for a while now to follow up on my previous posts about Islam,...
Cow-poop vs Kung Flu – WHO YA GOT?!?!

Cow-poop vs Kung Flu – WHO YA GOT?!?!

So there I was the other day, taking a bit of a break between running a bunch of M&A models and figuring out market segmentation for a client, when I ran across a couple of articles that made me sit bolt upright in my chair with shock. You see, there are quite a...
Telling the truth IS an act of violence

Telling the truth IS an act of violence

As you can probably guess, I’ve been RIDICULOUSLY busy this week – I was up until 1am writing a massive report and putting together the graphics (I do love myself some R code, especially the ggplot2 package), and generally wracking my brains until my head...
You can’t buy fighting spirit

You can’t buy fighting spirit

Remember what I wrote earlier about how the US military cannot win wars? That is because the US military is fundamentally unserious about the subject of warfighting. To demonstrate this problem, let us observe military recruiting ads from three different powers...