“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.”

Domain Query: Good call

RJ made the right bet about good old George Clooney: Rumor is that Clooney wants to run for office and needs a wife to look the part. Well hey, look what just turned up: George Clooney is planning a move in to politics, sources claim.  The actor, a noted...

The shadow soldiers

“… The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion… and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself- ultimate cost for perfect value.” — Lt. Colonel Jean V....

Barbarians at the gates

It’s required taking a beating with a clue-bat, but even the EU’s strongest defenders are now belatedly beginning to realise just what a colossally stupid idea unlimited immigration is turning out to be: Nicolas Sarkozy entered the political fray ahead of...

To hell with judging people by ability…

… Instead, we’ll judge them based on how politically correct they are! The Miami Dolphins announced Sunday defensive back Don Jones was fined and excused from team activities until he undergoes sensitivity training  [Didact: “If you want a...

“A nation of sociopaths”

Dr. Helen has a rather good take on an idea that Heartiste has been promoting for some time: We as a society do not want to encourage sociopathy, but that is what we are doing and as Chateau Heartiste points out, it is beneficial to the individual in sexual terms...

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. ...

Islam and slavery

Apparently the talking heads in the media and the “fashionable” political circles of this country are very surprised and deeply outraged at the threats that a group of Islamic “terrorists” have made regarding selling over 200 kidnapped girls...

Even scientists have to face the truth about race

Charles F. Murray- a scholar who is routinely, but in my opinion incorrectly, classified as a libertarian- wrote up a review of an interesting new book that promises to seriously shake up our understanding of race: The orthodoxy’s equivalent of the Nicene Creed...

Starboard guns ready to fire, Cap’n

Vox tells his critics to put up or shut up in spectacular fashion: Back when I first responded to NK Jemisin’s various attacks and lies in my inimitably calm and factual manner, the SFWA writers reacted with much the same combination of outrage and vitriol...

Laying on the RACISS with a trowel

Apparently some rich dude who owns a basketball team and its franchise possibly let his wealth get to his head a bit: V: I don’t understand, I don’t see your views. I wasn’t raised the way you were raised. DS: Well then, if you don’t...