“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.”

Father and son

Actually, my dad could probably kick my ass easily if he tried Every young man gets to a certain point in his life when he starts to think about settling down, having a family of his own, and becoming a good father. Not all of us can or should follow through on this....

“It makes liberal-sense”

Liberalism, according to liberals Sarah Hoyt, the Evil Legion of Evil’s resident Beautiful But Evil Space Princess, had some most amusing remarks to make about just why it is that liberals are so blind to realities staring them right in the eyes in the context...

Hymn Before Action by Rudyard Kipling

I just finished reading John Ringo’s outstanding first novel in the Legacy of the Aldenata series, A Hymn Before Battle. Aside from being a terrific writer and a clearly highly literate man, Mr. Ringo is a HUGE Kipling fan. As I’ve stated before, I...

The red horseman rides

My centre is yielding. My right is retreating. Situation excellent. I will attack. — Attributed to Marshall Ferdinand Foch, commander of the French Ninth Army, First Battle of the Marne, 1914 “The Third Hellrider Came, Teaching Brothers to Kill Brother...

Crusade

The Jerusalem Cross of the Crusaders- a once and future symbol of hope Cutting the CrapLike everyone else (who ISN’T a LIN), I was outraged by the cold-blooded slaying of twelve cartoonists whose “offence” was to create and publish cartoons mocking...

“Victor Victoria” IRL

Uh, sorry mate, you’re not convincing anyone A rather butch lesbian decides to take a page from a campy Blake Edwards film in order to understand how men think. The results are… well, downright strange- but also very revealing: I got this off a reddit...

You don’t DESERVE to get married

What most men and women THINK marriage should be like There has been some good commentary floating around over the last couple of weeks on the subject of why marriages don’t work. Now, guys like me tend to do a lot of complaining about why women aren’t...

We’re quaking in our boots

The resident crazy cat lady of the Daily Mail is back with what I can only assume is an article indicating the first signs of dementia: Do women have the killer instinct? Should we be allowed to fight in combat on the front line? [Didact: NO.] A new report says women...

“The mathematics are determinate”

It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the numbers are released- relatively well-off women in the West just don’t listen. I know it’s a fool’s errand to try to convince the willfully ignorant that, in fact, two plus two does equal four,...

True courage

A young woman in China was apparently living the dream. She had a good career as a TV presenter, she’d gotten married, she was in the prime of her youth and beauty- and she and her husband had conceived. Then she found out that she had late-stage cancer. She had...