“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.”

A Song of Ice and F*** YOU

Vox Day has been going on for a couple of years now about the fact that the quality of George R. R. Martin’s writing in his A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy series has been in decline ever since he released A Storm of Swords. Having read all of...

Beauty and freedom

The outstanding Mr. Wright has an interesting take on the way the liblepr crowd (to borrow a Kratmanism) destroys beauty, and why: The most precious, profound and important of the great ideas which the Left has raped from us is beauty. I need spend no time on the...

Happy anniversary, Popp

Redonkulas.com, the hilarious commentary site maintained by the one and only Terrence Popp, recently celebrated its first year of making fart jokes, dick jokes, mocking various idiots, and general all-around tomfoolery with a best-of video that was almost as funny as...

The victorious dead

Seventy years ago today, over a million men stormed the shores of the French coast at Normandy, on a day that has since gone down in history as the most important offensive action of World War II. The Nazis knew what was coming and so had left quite a few nasty...

Dead But Rising

The latest album by Swedish metal-rollers VOLBEAT was released last year. Called “Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies”, it was actually a notch below its outstanding predecessor, “Beyond Hell/Above Heaven”, but was a very solid chunk of heavy,...

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...

May the Fourth be with you

Happy STAR WARS day, all. Let us try to remember what made the original trilogy so amazing- and why the prequels sucked ass, and why the sequels will almost surely suck worse. Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)...

Take it out back and shoot it

Can we PLEASE all stop pretending that the next STAR WARS film is a good idea? Following months of rumor-laden, highly anticipated speculation, “Star Wars: Episode VII” director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm have finally announced the cast for first...

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...

Domain Query: Writing advice

A reader emailed recently and essentially asked two questions: Do you ever re-read your own writing? How do you avoid sounding like a massive tool when you write? I answered his queries privately in an email, but I think these questions are important enough to answer...