“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.”

There goes my alumni donation

One of the best universities in the world (according to several different standards) is now doing its damnedest to become one of the stupidest in the world, thanks to overzealous nitwits who want to suppress the free speech of their fellows: In a stunning display of...

“Survival cancels out programming”

(With apologies to LtCol. Tom Kratman for blatantly ripping off a, um, Kratmanism.) A little over ten years ago, a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Army who had recently turned his hand to writing science fiction released a book “written in collaboration...

The other white meat

At least some people in Denmark still have their heads screwed on correctly, and recognise that not only is bacon good for you- which everyone but Jews and Muslims KNOWS to be true for a FACT- but it is also works very well as orc repellent: A Danish...

F.O.A.D.

You know what the acronym means. And it is the only possible response to demands from a “Muslim advocacy group” called MuslimStern that Germans ban alcohol in order to help their little brown brothers from North Africa and the Levant integrate better...

13 Hours

The words “A Michael Bay Film” do not generally conjure up images of white-knuckle drama and powerful, deeply emotional storytelling. When Michael Bay releases a new film, it’s generally assumed that the new movie will essentially be the result of an...

Poor kid

To steal a quote from our good friend the Captain, “we don’t need to stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiking fathers!”: Spurred on by the profound regret of an older friend who’d searched high and low for the perfect father only to run out of time, I decided to...

You can’t cure stupid

Infinite Elgintensity does his usual bang-up job of mocking CrossSh*t’s unforgivably cavalier attitude toward sanity and safety: Injuries from the Washed Up Loser Olympics (2015) by InfiniteElgintensity Wow. Just… wow. If you’ve ever wondered why I...

Never send a woman to do a man’s job

It truly does warm the frozen core of my evil Minion heart to witness the BBC’sutterly ham-fisted attempts to revive what used to be the greatest TV show ever made: Fans’ fears are growing over the relaunch of BBCflagship show Top Gear amid fresh...

Whoops

Curie-Hultgreen Syndrome comes to the Dakar rally: Four children and a pregnant woman are among 10 people left seriously injured after a Dakar Rally competitor careened off the race track and crashed into a group of spectators.  Guo Meiling, the first Chinese...

A simple equation

Here is something for my fellow maths geeks to ponder. What happens when you allow mass invasions from Third World nations, with Third World standards of hygiene, medicine, literacy, and sanitation, into First World nations with far stricter controls on all of those...