“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.”

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...

The consequences of homogamy

Well… he DOES have a point… I certainly don’t mind admitting that I enjoy seeing stupid ideas destroyed when they run head-first into the unyielding wall of reality, formed as it is from the bricks of logic and the mortar of evidence. It is worth...

That’s not gone well…

This is NOT how I thought the greatest television show ever conceived by human intelligence would end: Jeremy Clarkson faces arrest today after the BBC sacked him for punching a Top Gear producer in the face with such force he had to go to A&E.  The...

An intemperate response will follow

Amen, Baldy There is apparently a black female rapper by the name of Azealia Banks, who posed for Playboy and was extensively interviewed by the same for the March issue. Her comments about her own country were, well, less than complimentary: Do you want to leave...