“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.”

Restoring sight to the blind

I recently had the opportunity to re-establish contact with an old acquaintance of mine from college. She and I have done very little to keep in touch other than my sending her an annual happy-birthday email; beyond that, we’ve not seen each other in nearly ten...

Clinton clam-bake

To be as fair as possible, it would be weird NOT to want to get an eyeful of that… In which Jim Goad asks some rather pointed questions about the Lizard Queen’s, um, personal preferences: Jenny McCarthy, easily the finest female specimen ever to appear on...

Quinntervention

Blatantly stolen Copied from Vox Day. Who got it from somewhere else anyway. When the whole GamerGate thing broke open three weeks ago, my first reaction was probably best described as a rude scatological noise, followed by a, “hey, look, DESTINY IS FINALLY...

Female porn addiction

Now this is one “disease” that I would have absolutely no problem helping its (straight and female) sufferers to cure:  Women are just as capable of being ‘addicted’ to porn as men. [Didact: well duh. It’s not like that godawful Fifty...

Why extroverts can’t leave us alone

Oh, the pain… Every introvert, without exception, has his or her own particular bugbears about other people. The most common one goes something like this: I’m perfectly happy being by myself, in peace and quiet- why can’t you see and understand that?...

Dumbing down domestic violence

For some reason both ESPN and CNN- along with probably every other major “news” network out there- seems to think that wall-to-wall coverage of the Ray Rice incident is both necessary and justified. Let’s get the boilerplate stuff out of the way...

Triviliasing rape

I would have gotten to this a bit sooner, but the intrepid gallants at RoK beat me to the punch: A rape victim [Didact: as the RoK article makes clear, this should really be printed as: “rape” victim] is carrying her dorm-room mattress with her...