“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.”

Defining Curie-Hultgreen Syndrome

Given that we are apparently only months away from seeing the first ever female Chairman/woman/person (who really gives a toss about the politically correct nomenclature when it comes to the creature from Jekyll Island?) of the Federal bloody Reserve, I think...

Why Women Should NEVER Fight in the Front Lines

Well first and foremost because it’s still a colossally stupid idea: One staff sergeant worried that the Marine Corps’ high standards would have to be lowered if women were assigned to combat. Other Marines in the group agreed, warning that women would not be...

Seven Years in America

[I suppose I should have written this about a month ago so that I would get the timing right, but as I’ve noted before, I’m kind of a lazy bastard. I like my couch and I like my afternoon naps on weekends, dammit…] August 22nd, 2006. A young man...

Garbage In, Garbage Out

“But honestly, Miss, the computer model told me to say it!!!”: The Mail on Sunday has obtained the final draft of a report to be published later this month by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the ultimate watchdog whose massive,...

Israel Will Do Just Fine On Its Own

Molotov Mitchell from World Net Daily recently acquired one of the most difficult qualifications in the world- a black belt in Krav Maga: Congratulations to him. Those who practice Krav Maga know only too well just how hard it is to get to that level- hell, yellow...

“Yeah, About Those Polar Ice Caps…”

“… we might have kinda sorta maybe goofed a little…”: The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year. More than 20 yachts that had planned to sail it have been left ice-bound and a cruise ship...

The Man From U.N.C.L.E…

… should have been a retro movie, not bloody real life: The United States’ National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers. Top secret NSA documents that...

Government Thought Patterns

My Singaporean counterpart had some news from back home that caught my eye: Foreigners coming to a country and demanding legislation be changed to suit their wants and preferences. Now, where have I heard of that before?  Oh, right.  “I love...

Being a Liberal is Not an Excuse

There’s an article over on Slate.com that’s been generating quite a bit of sturm und drang on teh interwebz of late regarding how, if you send your kids to private school, you are a Very Bad Person: You are a bad person if you send your children to private...