“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.”

The boys are back in town

God have mercy on us all: The announcement ends months of speculation about the trio’s future after they left the BBC amid much controversy following the incident at a hotel in North Yorkshire in March.  Mr Wilman said today how the former Top Gear team...

Stupidity, thy name is “football”

Not American football, mind you- though I readily admit, I don’t see the point of gridiron myself: I will certainly concede that I cannot for the life of me understand American sports such as basketball, baseball, or gridiron. I don’t mind ice hockey...

Joint Strike Flopter: flying piano edition

Well, that was some $400 billion well spent, then: It’s the most expensive weapon in history but America’s F-35 stealth jet has been outperformed by a 40-year-old F-16 jet in a dogfight.  A mock air battle was held over the Pacific Ocean between the...

It makes an odd kind of sense

Courtesy of Text From Dog, a highly subversive time-waster of a link that my highly subversive colleague sent me while we were both bored out of our gourds on a conference call today: Oh but wait, there are more: BACON IS ALWAYS AN OPTION Two can play this dastardly...

A vodka shot too far

So there I was, rocking out to some awesome power metal and generally enjoying life with a decent bottle of alcohol handy, when I stumbled across something that made me sit up and question my own sanity: After recovering from the initial shock of WTFness, I had...

Stop speaking like an American

This sort of thing would drive a saint to drink Seriously, please, just stop it: Have some fun with it, because at the end of the day if you don’t hit the ground running you can always go back to the drawing board and get the ball rolling… At the end of the day...

RIP Christopher Lee

Brother, you ain’t peddlin’ vacuum… Ladies and gentlemen, bow your heads and doff your hats, for we have lost a legend: Actor Sir Christopher Lee, best known for playing villain characters, has died. He was 93. The legendary actor passed away at...

Horatius at the bridge

There is yet one Republican in the Senate who understands why freedom is precious, and why it must be defended: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is already back at work after he filibustered on the U.S. Senate floor for about 10 and a half hours on Wednesday. He’s declaring...

How stupid can a neoconservative be?

Joel Pollak over at Breitbart.com inexplicably chose to tie a noose around his credentials as a conservative- and then proceeded to kick the chair out from under himself: Though the execution of the war was deeply flawed, there are at least five reasons it was...

Give him the respect he deserves

Staring up into the face of love, eh? Chris “All-American” Weidman emphatically put doubts about his worthiness for the title of UFC middleweight champion to the sword last night by pounding the hell out of Vitor Belfort’s skull in UFC 187: Weidman...