“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.”

“Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind…”

“But this universe consists of paired dualities. What is the converse of authority? Mr. Rico.”  He had picked one I could answer. “Responsibility, sir.”  “Applause. Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral ones, to permit...

He walked face-first into that one

Yes, let’s all trust Jeb the Builder to fix all of the problems that ail this country: In the annals of American political slogan-writing, no one has ever borrowed material from a British cartoon.  Jeb Bush can fix that.  And Twitter can mock him...

Yep, pretty much

If you look really closely, you can see me- #4508- lurking very far away there in the background. I’m the one in the Promethean Warrior-Servant outfit wielding a lightrifle and a hardlight blade. (I’m a big fan of the former- great for both medium-range...

Open season on manginas

Larry Correia has been described in many ways, each one funnier and more accurate than the last. He calls himself the International Lord of Hate, and with great justification. Vox Day has been known to call him “The Mountain That Writes” and, in his latest...

Come and get them, you jug-eared idiot

And once again, the tinpot would-be dictator shows us his true colours by hinting at going well beyond mere gun control and straight into gun confiscation: In the mid-1990s Australia and Great Britain both instituted what were virtually complete bans on...

r/K selection theory made simple

It would appear that Bill Whittle picked up a copy of Michael Trust’s Anonymous Conservative’s best book, The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics, and came to much the same set of conclusions that I did when I read it. And, in his usual lucid style, he...

Book review: SJWs Always Lie by Vox Day

I don’t really do book reviews anymore. They generally take rather a long time to write and are of limited interest to most people, so overall the payoff doesn’t justify the effort. However, this book by the Supreme Dark Overlord of the Evil Legion of...

Domain Query: What Voltotter said…

Good day, sir! I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR! It appears that my last post generated some interest among the crowd over at File770. This is perhaps unsurprising, given that, in that post, I basically argued that if you think this year was contentious and divisive, just wait...

So what now, Hugo?

As the International Lord of Hate said after the Hugo Awards results were announced… “I told you so”. The detailed statistics behind the awards results showed very clearly that the voters at WorldCon and Sasquan were perfectly willing to undermine...

Domain Query: A VFM’s response, Pt. 2

Now that’s my kind of crazy cat lady As promised, this is the second part of my response to a number of statements made by a commenter going by a couple of different handles to my original post about Irene Gallo’s highly intemperate remarks. Fair warning:...