“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.”

“Sometimes the bull, he wins”

If only… A woman finds that grabbing a bull by the horns may well end very, very badly: A female bullfighter was gored twice by the same bull while trying to kill it in a Mexico City bullring.  A 1,090lb-bull named Gamusino threw Karla de los Angeles up...

Young girls and dumb choices

My Christmas present arrived yesterday, in the form of a plane bearing my sister. Now, there is no doubt that I love that little brat- actually, she’s not so “little” anymore, now that she’s graduated college and is out and about on her own-...

We’re quaking in our boots

The resident crazy cat lady of the Daily Mail is back with what I can only assume is an article indicating the first signs of dementia: Do women have the killer instinct? Should we be allowed to fight in combat on the front line? [Didact: NO.] A new report says women...

“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,...

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,...

Viva #Gamergate!

Andrew Klavan nails it with this one: #Gamergate is not simply about putting power back in the hands of gamers, where it belongs. It is the latest front in a culture war that dates back at least 50 years. And as I’ve said before, we are winning this war. We...

When N > 10,000…

Gentlemen, let me run a hypothetical situation by you. You’re out for drinks down at your local pub, when you discover yourself locking eyes with this very attractive “older” woman. (Actually, she’s in her mid-thirties and looks at least...

Clever girl

Now this is one teenager who clearly has her head bolted on quite securely: A teenager from a children’s home in a poverty-stricken region of Thailand made an astonishing decision to turn down an offer from reality TV star Kim Kardashian to adopt her into a life...

She left out a few details

Miriam Weeks, aka Belle Knox, aka “the Duke University libertarian freshman porn star who’s totally empowered by getting nailed hard by men she doesn’t know on camera for money”, is normally not a figure for whom I would reserve much sympathy....

In defence of monogamous marriage

Among those of us who embrace a… shall we say, non-standard perspective when it comes to relationships and sex, the question of whether or not to get married is generally met with anything ranging from mild derision to outright scorn....