“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.”

What has been seen…

Recently the last season’s episodes for How I Met Your Mother hit Netflix. There was a time in my life where I did watch this show, fairly frequently; I thought it was one of the funnier sitcoms out there. But my views on the roles of men and women in...

Form Versus Function

That’s the true difference between bodybuilders and powerlifters: This is taken straight from the StrongLifts Facebook page, which I think is publicly accessible (and that’s the only reason why I can get this pic). It illustrates perfectly the difference...

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...

Theoretical Offence?

The inimitable Blackdragon posted a piece a while back that, apparently, caused several readers to erupt into frothing rage: Let’s take a Star Trek moment and say a tear in the space-time continuum caused an alternate timeline in which I was born a female instead of a...

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...

The Endpoint of Game

Danger & Play answered a reader’s question recently about why he doesn’t really post on game anymore; his respectful disagreement was a masterpiece: Think of game like an investment strategy. Ideally we would all have substantial assets that would...

Vibrant Banksters

Steve Sailer posted an interesting except from a book written by a former Lehman Bros. executive regarding the way diversity was forced down the throats of employees at that firm- right around the time that the housing bubble was clearly becoming a huge problem: One...

Crazy Cat Lady Plays the Blame Game

I was going to post about this Daily Mail article pretty much as soon as I read it, but naturally Vox, since he is both much smarter than me and blessed with far greater amounts of blogging time than I am, beat me to the punch. Sneaky bastard… Anyway, I’m...

Government Thought Patterns

My Singaporean counterpart had some news from back home that caught my eye: Foreigners coming to a country and demanding legislation be changed to suit their wants and preferences. Now, where have I heard of that before?  Oh, right.  “I love...

What’s Holding You Back?

Recent events got me thinking about why so many people have so much trouble getting what they want out of life. I’m sure you’ve seen this plenty of times- and you’re probably guilty of it yourself: someone sets a goal, decides that he wants to do...