“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.”

Starboard guns ready to fire, Cap’n

Vox tells his critics to put up or shut up in spectacular fashion: Back when I first responded to NK Jemisin’s various attacks and lies in my inimitably calm and factual manner, the SFWA writers reacted with much the same combination of outrage and vitriol...

Laying on the RACISS with a trowel

Apparently some rich dude who owns a basketball team and its franchise possibly let his wealth get to his head a bit: V: I don’t understand, I don’t see your views. I wasn’t raised the way you were raised. DS: Well then, if you don’t...

Don’t be clingy

Apparently even multimillionaire pop “stars” need to read Roissy’s archives: He recently professed his undying love for former girlfriend Hilary Duff, and vowed to spend ‘the rest of my life getting back to her’.  And despite rumours...

The cost of marriage

The ever-entertaining, ever-insightful Terrence Popp put up a video over at Redonkulas.com a while back that weighed up the expenses of being single versus married for the “average” American. The mathematics, as you will see, are brutal: For all that...

Man vs Silly Feminist

If civilisation had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. — Camille Paglia  Famed survivalist (and drinker of his own urine) Bear Grylls has apparently pissed off (heh) several feminists by casting his latest reality show with...

Humility and humiliation

I am hardly the world’s foremost theological scholar. I have no doubt that older and wiser men like Vox and Carey could make me look like seven different degrees of idiot when it comes to understanding what the Bible (and the Talmud, for that matter) has to say...

“Programming is hard…”

“… so we’ll make it easier specifically to attract more women to it! What a brain wave!” Yes, we know there aren’t enough women in tech. [Didact: According to what metric, exactly? Other than the author’s ridiculous view that men and...

The futility of higher education

One of the more painful consequences of imbibing regular doses of Cold Hard Truth is that you find yourself actively questioning everything you were taught when growing up by those you love the most. As you get older and (hopefully) wiser, and as you continue down...

If you give a mouse a cookie…

… then he’ll want a glass of milk: The eight-page, grievance-filled email came from a group of discontented students, reports The College Fix. The same group also sent its detailed protest missive to various Dartmouth bigwigs. The message outlines the...