“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.”

Go kick the bucket

Aaron Clarey gives the only possible rational response to this stupid ALS ice bucket challenge that’s sweeping the globe, for reasons that I completely fail to understand: Look, I’ll make this really simple. This is a disease that affects a total of up to...