“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.”

When N > 10,000…

Gentlemen, let me run a hypothetical situation by you. You’re out for drinks down at your local pub, when you discover yourself locking eyes with this very attractive “older” woman. (Actually, she’s in her mid-thirties and looks at least...

A cure for a cultural hangover

The up-and-coming independent publishing company Castalia House recently produced a rather fascinating, and very well-written, book called Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War by none other than William S. Lind. The book depicts (among other things) the...

A Frenchist trollop on power

The former First Lady of France apparently has a few choice words for the state of politics in her native country: Former first lady of France Valerie Trierweiler has branded the country’s politics ‘misogynistic’ and said female politicians encounter...

Blissful incoherence

The Liberal Mind I doubt very much that anyone who visits and reads this pokey little blog of mine is a liberal. (Well, maybe one or two people at a time are, but they rapidly become so appalled by what I have to say that they flee screaming in terror at what they...

Clever girl

Now this is one teenager who clearly has her head bolted on quite securely: A teenager from a children’s home in a poverty-stricken region of Thailand made an astonishing decision to turn down an offer from reality TV star Kim Kardashian to adopt her into a life...

When chauvinism saves lives

Feminists have long argued, with no empirical or biological justification whatsoever, that women can and should serve in front-line combat positions alongside men. And for the last thirty years, against our better judgement and in the face of all common sense, men...

She left out a few details

Miriam Weeks, aka Belle Knox, aka “the Duke University libertarian freshman porn star who’s totally empowered by getting nailed hard by men she doesn’t know on camera for money”, is normally not a figure for whom I would reserve much sympathy....

How to creep out a porn star

Well, just to be pedantic, I have to admit that she’s a former porn star. The requirements of precision notwithstanding, it’s interesting to see what it would take to weird out a woman like her. Evidently, some enterprising wags have figured out how...

Soma

When you up sticks and move across entire continents to a totally different country, culture, and set of surroundings, the wrenching changes imposed by this move focus your mind on that which you left behind. Coming to the United Kingdom, I knew intellectually that...

Crossing the Rubicon

Up until fairly recently, the #Gamergate thing was one of those routine storms in a teacup that flares up from time to time between those of us who like a bit of order and sense in the world, and those Morlocks* among the “social justice” set who stand...