“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.”

That’s one way to solve the problem

It isn’t often that you see anything sensible coming out of an Indian court of law. But this is one rather happy exception: An Indian court has ruled that a divorced woman can only continue receiving financial support from her ex-husband if she never has sex...

Open mouth, change feet

“Why yes, I AM as big a jackass as I look right now” There has been quite a lot of sturm und drang released on teh interwebz recently about the comments made by one Nick Kyrgios during a tennis match in Canada against French Open champion Stanislas...

The potential bankster’s dilemma

Lots of money- well, not any more, obviously, given how over-the-top the regulations have gotten- versus an honourable and productive career? Hmmm… tough choice: (Full disclosure: I work for a bank. A big one. No, I’m not a bankster. Or a trader. Yes,...

Staking the vampire

… well, maybe not THAT one If you subscribe to cable or satellite TV, you have unquestionably found yourself wondering why the hell you’re paying $80 a month (or whatever it happens to be) for 150 channels’ worth of pure garbage. Evidently, the...

In case you think “Delhi Belly” isn’t real…

IT’S A TRAP!!! I can tell you from very real and very personal experience that if you visit India, you are virtually certain to get a nasty case of the trots at some point. The South African cricket team found this out in the worst possible way when TEN of...

MidKnight is getting a bill from my psychiatrist

Bastard got me hooked on E NOMINE. And now I can’t stop listening to these crazy Germans. It’s like listening to RAMMSTEIN on really good crack, with choirs and Latin hymnals thrown in for good measure. The addiction has gotten so bad, in fact, that I...

What’s the German word for “schadenfreude”?

Remember how the Left went into a warm-n-fuzzy swooning meltdown when an eeeeeevil corporate CEO finally turned from the Dark Side and started paying his employees a Living Wage by massively slashing his own salary? To the point where he was paying ALL of his...

America and beer

F**k yeah! Pretty much every country song, ever. The non-stupid, non-sarcastic, far more AWESOME metal version of this is, naturally, a MANOWAR song: This band, by the way, is featured in one of the best near-future military fiction books ever written, John...

Outward to convert, then inward to destroy

You keep telling yourself that, bucko The whole LGBTIQWTFISTHISBS movement appears to be having a severe identity crisis (pun intended): A Pride event in Scotland has banned drag queens because they might offend trans-gender people. Organisers of the show, established...