“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.”

Synthol: not even once

How on Earth do people convince themselves that physiques like this are to be emulated?!? In case you’re curious about what synthol is or does, the video above explains it pretty well. Synthol is basically just an oil, combined with alcohol- and the only reason...

Just SHOOT the RINO already

The GOP’s 2016 electoral strategy George W. “Compassionate Conservative” Bush’s brother apparently seems to think that having yet another progressive Republican cast in the mould of Theodore Roosevelt and John McCain leading the US would be a...

The lady’s NOT for turning

Apparently even THIS wasn’t a big enough insult to the Catwoman franchise Reader I. Fox emailed me some rather depressing news earlier today concerning everyone’s favourite cat burglar. To my surprise, I was informed that one of the best and most beloved...

Putting freedom back on the offensive

It has been a rather good week for those of us who don’t take kindly to being told what is good for us. The Supreme Dark Overlord of the Evil Legion of Evil has kindly provided the rest of us with some rather good examples of the rabbits/SJWs/CHORFs displaying...

Domain Query: Cracked jumps the shark

Cultural insensitivity can be hilariously awesome AM sent over an interesting link to a Cracked.com article last night that talked about five unpleasant realities of visiting India as a young Western woman. It is worth reading through all the way, if only to get an...

Feel the love

The faces of peace and brotherly love I can’t believe that anyone would have the effrontery, the audacity, the bare-faced cheek, to suggest that South Africa is anything other than a happy land of rainbows and unicorns where cats and dogs live in...

Messing up matriarchy

Recently I finished up Karen Traviss’s final book of the Kilo-Five Trilogy, titled HALO: Mortal Dictata. The book itself was interesting enough, I suppose; at any rate, her work in the HALOverse did a lot to raise my dismally poor opinion of her work,...

Go to hell, you stupid dingbat

Which is why you don’t waste time arguing with them- you simply destroy them and move on I know I’ve been banging on about Top Gear for a while now, but I just couldn’t help reacting when I saw that Jeremy Clarkson had been fired from the show...

Curie-Hultgreen Syndrome comes to Formula 1

I believe I can flyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! Lord here we go…: Bernie Ecclestone is considering a women’s Formula One championship to give fans extra value for money during grand prix weekends.  Ecclestone, the sport’s chief executive, floated the idea at a meeting...

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...