“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.”

Ordained by God?

Part of the reason my posts have been even less frequent than usual is that I’ve been travelling quite a lot of late, entirely for leisure purposes. (Well, in theory anyway; in practice even my holidays tend to be a bit manic.) Last week I took a couple of days...

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...

“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...

Game Lesson: Lead or Follow, There Is No Middle Ground

Leadership skills are generally not associated with deep introverts, and rightly so. However, the special subset of introverts known as INTJs, or Sigmas, or whatever you want to call them, have the ability to become very good leaders- the odd thing is, though, that...

Security in a Libertarian Society

I’ve been meaning to publish this one for months now but have literally never bothered to sit down and hammer it out properly. Well, given that this weekend is all about setting aside some time to do things that must be done, here goes. The Libertarian...

Choose Your Major Carefully

My sister and I are very close, but in many ways we are as different as chalk and cheese. In no respect is this more true than in our choices of colleges and majors, and in our post-college careers. Speaking with her earlier today, I came to realise that Aaron Clarey-...

Domain Query: On Reaganomics

pumpsix returns with a good question on the Reagan Revolution: What do you think of Reaganomics? The idea, to me, seems so logical. More capital in the hands of those who can produce factories and jobs. However, I am constantly told that Reaganomics didn’t work....

The Long War

Among the many books that I find myself reading at the moment, Peter Schwyzer’s book Reagan’s War is definitely the standout. If you thought you knew who Ronald Reagan was based on his public appearances or his speeches, think again, because the...

Honouring the Fallen

There’s no question that I’m glad it’s a public holiday; Lord only knows, I need the rest. But unlike most other public holidays in this country, which celebrate something or other, this day is about remembering those who paid the ultimate price in...

Be a Man: Juicing

Depending on your background, mention of the word “juicing” and its results might well bring to mind images of gargantuan, bloated, hideously misshapen experiments in muscle-building gone horribly wrong. Like, say, this: Sorry. Couldn’t resist....