“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 mathematics are determinate”

It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the numbers are released- relatively well-off women in the West just don’t listen. I know it’s a fool’s errand to try to convince the willfully ignorant that, in fact, two plus two does equal four,...

The laws of physics

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NOBODY likes the French

Not even soldiers fighting in the squalor and horror of the trenches of WWI- on opposite sides: The Christmas Truce of 1914 was a brief moment of humanity amid the horrors of the First World War.  But when Tommies and German troops emerged from the trenches to...

The Third Jihad arrives in Australia

The next great wave of Islamic expansion claims its most recent casualties in the Land Down Under: An Iranian-born gunman was killed, two of his hostages are dead and four injured after a dramatic and chaotic firefight brought an end to a terrorist siege at a Sydney...

The point of sex in gaming

A new trailer for a mobile platform game demonstrates some rather important core truths about the culture of gaming: She plays Greek goddess Athena in brand new game franchise, Game Of War: Fire Age and Hollywood actress Kate Upton looks sexy in a new...

North Korean Top Gun

It’s a bit lower-budget than the version the Americans made. (The Didact will not be held responsible for computer screens damaged by spontaneous expulsion of hot liquid beverages. Or for underpants damaged in similar fashion.) Dear Lord, they are building me a...

The problem isn’t me…

… it’s you, according to Dr. John Becker: Watch the episode all the way through. It’s one of the funniest in the entire series- I couldn’t stop laughing throughout it. Ted Danson’s genius lies in his ability to portray a cranky...

Of COURSE the Chief would win

I mean, I’m surprised there was even any question about this: All respect to Captain America. He’s a badass. But when it comes to badassitude, the Master Chief not only broke the mould, he broke the scale. (Literally. Dude weighs 1,000lbs in full...

This is your brain on feminism

In which an all-but-self-confessed Beta male calls for feminism to “re-brand” itself so as to get more blokes on-side: My name is Martin and I hate the word “feminism”. I’ve been waiting the best part of 20 years to make that dark confession, and, by God,...

Vibrant Vikings

Tolerance and diversity only seem to work in one direction with most people- as amply demonstrated by an employer who rejected a Christian applicant for a job opening with his firm based entirely on his views about her religion: A recent graduate from a Canadian...