“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.”

Domain Query: The subcontinental RFPF

Commenter buscaraons asked me for my views about how invasions changed, positively or otherwise, the appeal of the women of the Subcontinent: I’d be interested in your view of how the IndoEuropean invasions made or didn’t the feminine beauty in India....

Royal cock-up

It would appear that the Half-Blood Princess is riling up the locals in Ye Olde Englande: Most of us haven’t a clue whether those sisters-in-law get on or how close they are. But their joint outing today to the royal box presents Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, with a...

The hardest job there is

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of...

Retreat is not a solution

Do you reckon maybe that if Joffrey got laid before he got poisoned, he would have been less of an irritating little twat? The one and only Blackdragon posted up an article recently which pointed out a few home truths about the fact that men who cannot get laid (most...

For those who ventured into the howling dark…

June 6th, 1944, is a day that the Western nations hold sacred – or at least, those of them with the good sense and wit to remember what it stands for – and with very good reason. Seventy-four years ago today, over a million men stormed the beaches of...

Dynamite the hugboxes

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – The Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:11, The Holy Bible (King James Version) I have only vaguely heard the name...

Just sayin’

What with all of my injuries of late – the newest one being an ankle injury caused when I got my foot tangled up in someone else’s during a knife-sparring drill at the end of a class, whereby my right foot went one way and the remaining 190lbs or so of me...

The Dominator mindset

Dominick Cruz was the UFC’s bantamweight-division championship – twice over. When he first entered the fight game, he was only around 20 years old. He amassed an amazing 9-0 record in his first fighting organisation, “Rage in the Cage”, before...

The real white privilege

This post is probably going to be very unpopular, at least at first. I cannot say that I particularly care. Regardless, in the interests of fairness you would probably do well to reserve final judgement on it until you have read it all the way through. Among the...