“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.”

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...

The value of your vote

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. — Quote often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin “I find your lack of cookies disturbing” Today America’s voters went to the polls in one of the country’s innumerable...

Turn the bullshido up to 11

So there I was, with about an hour or so to go until the end of the workday and then I could start thinking about leaving and hitting the gym. I was taking a bit of a break (read: goofing off) and surfing teh interwebz looking for mildly interesting content when I...

Unfortunate angst

One week before I left the US for my little six-month sojourn to the warm and pleasantly sunny miserably cold, wet, and wind-swept northern realm of the United Kingdom (of Depressing Weather), I had the opportunity to see not one, but two of my favourite...

Stating the clearly obvious

A young woman and a rather liberal media artist work together to create something that is unintentionally hilarious and instructive: A 24-year-old aspiring actress has been filmed being catcalled 108 times as she strolled around New York City – even though she...