“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.”

Stupidity is contagious

And you’re surprised that I’m wearing a HazMat suit in public? But we knew that already. Guess what else is highly contagious? Two patients who had symptoms similar to those Ebola and were rushed to a New York hospital today do not have the virus, it was...

Globocop

The Mantle. You still hold to that [fairy tale] after all that has happened? After this thing has consumed a million worlds? Can’t you see? Belief in the Mantle sealed our doom! Weakened our [protectorates], bred dependence and sloth. Our [so-called...

Because they’re fat, dammit

(Credit goes to El Capitan for finding this little gem.) Apparently our intrepid Benevolent Government Overlords are now spending damn-near half a million dollars to figure out why fat girls can’t get dates: The federal government is spending nearly a half a...

An African future

Via good ol’ Derb over at Taki’s place, take a look at this projection of the world’s population over the next 50-odd years: “Charty goodness”, as ye olde Capitaine would say… Basically, by 2100, Asians and Africans will dominate...

“Unfair” should be a banned word

Didact Sr. sent me an interesting article showing that the Swiss still, for the moment at least, have their heads screwed on right when it comes to the never-ending and frankly pointless debate about who should pay for health care: Swiss voters on Sunday rejected...

Why the love-fest?

One of the more odd character traits that can be observed among Americans- across all shades of the political spectrum- is a curious fascination with meddling in Israel’s domestic and foreign affairs. If I didn’t know (at least slightly) better, I...

Educated fools

The venerable Prof. Ian Plimer- perhaps best known for his vociferous, uncompromising, and (usually) rigourous take-downs of the pseudoscience that is most properly known as the “Anthropogenic Global Warming” theory- had some typically blunt things to say...

A case study in incompetence

As if the flu wasn’t bad enough, now we have an actual haemorrhagic fever imported straight from Africa to deal with: Schoolchildren in Texas may be at risk from Ebola today after five children who attend four different Dallas schools came in close contact with...

Restoring sight to the blind

I recently had the opportunity to re-establish contact with an old acquaintance of mine from college. She and I have done very little to keep in touch other than my sending her an annual happy-birthday email; beyond that, we’ve not seen each other in nearly ten...