“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.”

A few facts went a-missing

An interesting article over at Return of Kings the other day posited that Russia is becoming a rather good place for modern “unplugged” men to go, in order that they might expand their horizons: A man who (wisely) chooses to leave the Western world today...

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...

RIP John Nash

John Forbes Nash Jr., the genius who formulated the concept of the Nash Equilibrium which is so central to game theory, died yesterday in a car crash in New Jersey: The Princeton math genius whose life story was the subject of the film “A Beautiful Mind” died Saturday...

Effing the ineffable

Just when you thought the US government couldn’t get any more retarded, they manage to take that incredibly low bar- and then smash headfirst into it: The federal government missed an estimated $41.1 million in “cost savings” transporting immigrant detainees on...

Economics in nine panels

The funniest jokes are always the ones that poke sharp sticks into the vulnerable points of real things, and this is no exception. If you’ve ever had to listen to an economist from a central bank speaking on television- and here I’m referring to...

The elites are about to wet their short trousers

And good bloody riddance It would appear that the Greeks and the Germans between them are hell-bent on doing everything they can to destroy the European single currency. Good. Neither side’s intransigence and belligerence should come as any kind of surprise, and...

The hidden cost of Europe’s “free stuff”

They’re loony, jingoistic, and gun-obsessed- God love the crazy bastards! Roman Holiday The venerable Captain went on a holiday to Europe late last year and- to his complete and total lack of surprise- discovered that his European cousins pay a rather steep...

Conservatives are starting to get it

Ronald Reagan: Saints Row IV Edition In which I note with a certain grimly amused satisfaction that the “mainstream” end of the conservative crowd is finally, however dimly and poorly and belatedly, beginning to understand what Islam really is- and how to...

ALL men pay for sex

Some of us are simply a little more up-front about the nature of the transaction than others: Last week, a report revealed that 1 in 10 British men have paid for sex. Find that shocking? Then try this for size: the same report, pulled from a total of over 6,000 men...

Take your “law” and shove it

That’s the only appropriate response to the latest bit of nanny-state stupidity that has been proposed on this side of the Pond: Labour wants to stop drinkers having more than a pint of beer a day – sparking fresh accusations that it is out of touch with...