“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.”

Societal Programming isn’t the whole story

The irrepressible Blackdragon put up a rather interesting post recently addressing, among other things, the question of why society is more messed up than a football bat when it comes to the differences between the way men treat men, versus the way they treat women:...

Two years and counting

Happy anniversary, Popp: Has it been two years already?! Oh well- WINNING!!! Good luck sleeping tonight with that image Once you’re done catching up on the awesomeness that is Year Two, take a look at the best of Year One to be reminded as to just why Popp is...

It’s not JUST about intelligence

“… what was your name again?” A boffin by the name of Prof. David Bainbridge caused a bit of a stir in the mainstream media when he released findings that, among other things, claim to support the view that men prize brains over breasts: Men value...

You’re not fooling anyone

My Jargon is Better Than Yours! Anyone who has dipped a toe or three into the Androsphere and its accumulated wisdom will be instantly familiar with the terms Alpha, Beta, and Omega. These words are used to define a sexual, and in certain cases a socio-sexual,...

Learn from your betters

At some point in his life, just about every man reaches a critical fork. Driven to that point by his own insecurities, mediocrity, lack of confidence, or perhaps by forces outside of his control, he finds himself staring at a reflection in a mirror that he can no...

Celebrate Earth Day properly

… by burning petrol. A LOT of it: In the spirit of being “clean” and “sensible” and all other things that Mother Gaia might approve of, let me make a hugely embarrassing confession. There was a time- waaaaaaaay back when I was in,...

Don’t be “nice”

The other day, Didact Sr. and I were having a conversation in which my father uttered perhaps the most unusual words I’ve ever heard him say. We were discussing my sister and her rather irritating self-centred tendencies. It was at about the point where I was...

Messing up matriarchy

Recently I finished up Karen Traviss’s final book of the Kilo-Five Trilogy, titled HALO: Mortal Dictata. The book itself was interesting enough, I suppose; at any rate, her work in the HALOverse did a lot to raise my dismally poor opinion of her work,...

Warpigs… literally

If this is the best that the Kazakhstani military has to offer as a recruiting incentive, then I seriously doubt that they’ll ever pose any kind of threat to the other former Soviet bloc states in their immediate vicinity: Military officials in Kazakhstan...

Go to hell, you stupid dingbat

Which is why you don’t waste time arguing with them- you simply destroy them and move on I know I’ve been banging on about Top Gear for a while now, but I just couldn’t help reacting when I saw that Jeremy Clarkson had been fired from the show...