“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.”

How NOT to Argue With Liberals

Heeeeeere’s Didact… I’d like to say that I’ve been away due to a very busy work schedule, but frankly that’s not really true; it’s mostly due to chronic laziness on my part that I really haven’t posted anything much of late....

Crazy Cat Lady Plays the Blame Game

I was going to post about this Daily Mail article pretty much as soon as I read it, but naturally Vox, since he is both much smarter than me and blessed with far greater amounts of blogging time than I am, beat me to the punch. Sneaky bastard… Anyway, I’m...

Arm Teachers, Save Students

I am really quite mystified as to why this is even the slightest bit controversial… A group of Arkansas teachers will carry firearms when the school term resumes this September, in an attempt to deter gunmen who target schools.  The decision to train and...

What’s Holding You Back?

Recent events got me thinking about why so many people have so much trouble getting what they want out of life. I’m sure you’ve seen this plenty of times- and you’re probably guilty of it yourself: someone sets a goal, decides that he wants to do...

Blessed Solitude

To extroverts, the introvert is a very odd creature, who seems fundamentally wrong in some strange and often intangible sense. Extroverts find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to contemplate the idea of spending time completely by themselves, in isolation...

Women + Front-Line Service = Disaster

I realise that I’ve written on this subject before, but now might not be a bad time to revisit it. It should be plainly obvious to anyone with half a brain that lifting restrictions on women serving in front-line combat is a spectacularly stupid idea. It’s...

On Striking Women

Vox’s recent post, included in my linkage for the week, regarding the rather thorny question of whether it is permissible to strike women who attack you, makes for some thought-provoking reading: First of all, there is nothing more intrinsically wrong about...

Studies in Sigma: Jack Reacher

“Tom Cruise” and “deep characterisation” are not phrases that sit easily in the same sentence. Truth be told, I’ve always had a tough time shaking that mental image of Tom Cruise as the cocky, brash, extroverted ace fighter pilot that he...

“We Can’t Fix You”

At a Krav Maga class a few weeks back, the Master Instructor seemed to be having a rather bad day and got a bit snappish at several of us for making the same mistake over and over again. He stopped us all and proceeded to give us a short lecture, and I’ll never...