“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.”

“Idiocracy” was a documentary

That is the only possible conclusion that I think that a rational man can reach after seeing “news” stories like this one: The businessman’s [Didact: “businessman”? Isn’t that a bit of a stretch?] less than pleased reaction to...

Bar fighting with El Guapo

God bless Bas Rutten: This is actually a heavily condensed and edited version of Bas Rutten’s original street fighting instructional DVD. Looking at it from the perspective of someone who does a street-geared martial art, I can tell you this- everything...

Drive-by country

Molotov Mitchell has some rather trenchant observations to make about the State of New Jersey, on his way to making some quite poignant observations about lone soldiers fighting for Israel: Unfortunately, I can’t really avoid NJ. I live in the state. I do,...

Leave the barbarians alone

Pat Buchanan proves, yet again, exactly why the rest of the country should be listening to him very closely when it comes to foreign policy: But before allowing these “Cassandras” to stampede us back into the civil-sectarian Middle East wars that resulted from our...

Geeksploitation

Vox Day had some rather trenchant things to say about the H-1B “worker visa” programme yesterday, on the back of an interesting article that pointed out that companies are now using the H-1B system to force domestic IT workers to train their foreign...

Cultural Vandals

I first heard that phrase in connection with the controversy over whether or not the first Moon landing actually happened back in 1969*. It was used in a rather interesting BBC documentary- it might actually have been the History Channel, come to think of it- by...

At least she’s honest

As if there was ever any doubt as to what women want- and why you should never, ever take their delusions about their own sexual value seriously- this quite hilarious article caught my eye this morning: Jacqui Lambie, an Australian MP who shares the balance of power...

The false prosperity of the banks

The last five years have certainly been… eventful when it comes to the world of high finance. In 2008, the world discovered that the geniuses to whom the public had entrusted trillions of dollars didn’t really have a clue how to manage it responsibly....

Amnesty = Lunacy

Jim Goad has an interesting article over at Taki’s Magazine that dumps a tub of ice-water on the notion that this country somehow needs to grant amnesty to millions of invaders who have openly flouted your laws: President Barack Obama—who would never lie…at...

Good work if you can get it

Well this certainly gives a whole new meaning to jerking around at work…: The Environmental Protection Agency has not been firing employees for watching pornography and falsifying federal documents, according to California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa. ...