“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.”

“Survival cancels out programming”

(With apologies to LtCol. Tom Kratman for blatantly ripping off a, um, Kratmanism.) A little over ten years ago, a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Army who had recently turned his hand to writing science fiction released a book “written in collaboration...

Black-knighting, level: Sh*tlord

When you really really need to troll someone good and hard, you will not be able to find a finer source of inspiration (or hairstyling tips) than Emperor Butt-Pirate himself: When I announced I was going to be writing on plus-size Barbie dolls, you no doubt expected...

The other white meat

At least some people in Denmark still have their heads screwed on correctly, and recognise that not only is bacon good for you- which everyone but Jews and Muslims KNOWS to be true for a FACT- but it is also works very well as orc repellent: A Danish...

F.O.A.D.

You know what the acronym means. And it is the only possible response to demands from a “Muslim advocacy group” called MuslimStern that Germans ban alcohol in order to help their little brown brothers from North Africa and the Levant integrate better...

13 Hours

The words “A Michael Bay Film” do not generally conjure up images of white-knuckle drama and powerful, deeply emotional storytelling. When Michael Bay releases a new film, it’s generally assumed that the new movie will essentially be the result of an...

Poor kid

To steal a quote from our good friend the Captain, “we don’t need to stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiking fathers!”: Spurred on by the profound regret of an older friend who’d searched high and low for the perfect father only to run out of time, I decided to...

Never send a woman to do a man’s job

It truly does warm the frozen core of my evil Minion heart to witness the BBC’sutterly ham-fisted attempts to revive what used to be the greatest TV show ever made: Fans’ fears are growing over the relaunch of BBCflagship show Top Gear amid fresh...

Whoops

Curie-Hultgreen Syndrome comes to the Dakar rally: Four children and a pregnant woman are among 10 people left seriously injured after a Dakar Rally competitor careened off the race track and crashed into a group of spectators.  Guo Meiling, the first Chinese...

The Didact’s Top 10 Posts of 2015

Not surprisingly, this assclown’s face is among the top image search results for “narcissism” Yes, I know, this is navel-gazing of the worst kind. Fortunately I only get one chance a year to do it. The list below is in descending order, and is...

SJW delenda est, Pt. 2: Strategy

As I pointed out earlier, the fact is that we are now at war for our culture. This is true whether you like it or not, and it is time to pick a side- the SJWs, or the rest of us. It is not pleasant to see the world in such Manichean terms, but that is the reality with...