“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.”

Non-Mozilla browsing options

If you’re annoyed enough by this whole Brandon Eich situation, you might consider switching away from Mozilla-provided web browsers completely, and start using Mozilla-based, but independently developed, browsers instead. Here is a small shortlist of some that...

The Mozilla mess

So Mozilla CEO Brendon Eich stepped down this week because of internal backlash over his political contributions to a group that supported a state-level ban on gay marriage: The decision to remove the man who invented the web scripting language JavaScipt did not sit...

Freedoms are not free

They come with attendant duties and responsibilities. And as the mainstream media is beginning to find out, far too late, if those who claim specific freedoms and rights refuse to uphold those duties, then they do not deserve those freedoms: New York Times reporter...

The lessons of the Didache

Someone- let’s call him A. Reader for now- emailed me with some reading material a little while back and asked for my opinion on it: I have been meaning to contact you for some time to ask if you’ve ever read an early Christian work called The Didache. I...

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...

Why should the Church endorse sin?

A young Churchian completely misses the point of the teachings of her faith: But, for my friend Ella*, these issues and obstacles seem blissfully trivial in comparison to the worries that keep her up at night as the big day approaches. She’s marrying her...

And in other news, water is still wet…

… and the CAGW crowd are still idiots: There is no scientific evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm, according to Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who testified in front of a Senate committee on Tuesday.  Moore argued that...

Yes, Hitler WAS a socialist

Recently a minor kerfuffle erupted between two well-known bloggers for the Daily Telegraph over the precise ideological nature of the Nazis. On the one side you have Daniel Hannan, who claims that the ideological roots of fascism and Nazism lie well and truly on the...

All hail the Dark Enlightenment!!!

Apparently the Manosphere is now, according to certain breathless and all too easily startled poltroons over on the left side of the pond, run by Sith Lords of the Dark Enlightenment who all want to do Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Things to human society by...

Frack ALL The things!

I have a fairly (un)healthy contempt for the Obarmy administration’s general cluelessness about most things in general, but when it comes to domestic energy production, I find myself wondering if anyone who works for the current Executive branch, from the...