“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.”

Dual-wielding is awesome nonsense

As a result of my need to feed my massive HALO addiction, I’ve been replaying the games from HALO WARS all the way through to HALO 4 once again. It’s something I do every 3-6 months, partly to remind myself of just how amazing that game series still is,...

“Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi”

The Observer added his own thoughts in response to mine regarding the best way to structure government. Go read the whole thing, it’s very good and he’s clearly put a LOT of thought into his writing- which is one of the reasons why I read his work, of...

Happy HELLOWEEN

Halloween is surely the most pointless, overdone, and historically inaccurate “holiday” of the lot. Fortunately, a band came along waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in 1986 with an album called Keeper of the Seven Keys that forever changed the nature and tempo...

Fifty Shades of Complete Disaster

I am admittedly quite late to this story, but then I have rather better things to do than worry about who’s starring in the latest godawful stupid idea from a Hollywood studio system that has very clearly run out of ideas: Charlie Hunnam, the erstwhile star of...

A hymn by Chesterton

One of my favourite poems ever: O God of Earth and altar, bow down and hear our cry, Our Earthly rulers falter, our people drift and die, The walls of gold entomb us, the swords of scorn divide, Take not Thy thunder from us, but take away our pride From all that...

To Infinity, and Be- *hic*

This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “moonshine”: He’s a decade off being able to drink it but that hasn’t stopped a Colorado sixth-grader from developing a way to brew beer in space.  Michael Bodzianowski, 11, will soon get the...

So THAT’S What They Mean By “Special Ed”…

And here I thought “Hot For Teacher” was just a really funny and really silly VAN HALEN song that only gets played at strip clubs these days- I didn’t think it would actually happen in real life: A Dallas teacher has generated a buzz around the high...

What the Hell is a “Vegan Strip Club”???

Anyone have any idea dafuq this is supposed to be? The stripper who was exchanging Twitter messages with New Jersey Senate hopeful Cory Booker has tried to downplay their conversations after they were exposed on Wednesday.  Booker, the 44-year-old Newark mayor...

Team Intelligent-People-Who-Refuse-to-Watch-Twilight

Normally I would never, ever, ever comment upon the Twilight saga. This is for two reasons. One, I have never read any of the books or watched any of the movies. This is because I have a brain and I would very much like to retain use of it, thank you very much. Two, I...

Seven Years in America

[I suppose I should have written this about a month ago so that I would get the timing right, but as I’ve noted before, I’m kind of a lazy bastard. I like my couch and I like my afternoon naps on weekends, dammit…] August 22nd, 2006. A young man...