“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.”

Not entirely a myth…

Vox has some rather amusing, quite unkind, and (mostly) accurate things to say about women learning the art of Krav Maga: There is a very big difference between training and the real thing. There is nearly as big a difference between drill and full-contact sparring....

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...

Scraping at the leftovers

OMFG KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!! Apparently Western feminists, not satisfied with lying to themselves about their rapidly declining sexual market value, are now insisting on lying to Chinese women about their declining sexual market value: The notion of a...

The cost of marriage

The ever-entertaining, ever-insightful Terrence Popp put up a video over at Redonkulas.com a while back that weighed up the expenses of being single versus married for the “average” American. The mathematics, as you will see, are brutal: For all that...

Man vs Silly Feminist

If civilisation had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. — Camille Paglia  Famed survivalist (and drinker of his own urine) Bear Grylls has apparently pissed off (heh) several feminists by casting his latest reality show with...

Run, hamster, run

A former blonde “bombshell” projects her own insecurities on married couples: She has romanced some of the world’s most sought-after men, from Matt Dillon to Justin Timberlake, but none has been able to tame her [Didact: I’m already seeing a...

Hitting The Wall at 100mph

There was an article over at RoK a while back talking about how it is small-minded and venal to root for a beautiful but bitchy woman to get her comeuppance in the form of “hitting the wall”: In today’s world, The Wall can generally be summed up as the...

“Programming is hard…”

“… so we’ll make it easier specifically to attract more women to it! What a brain wave!” Yes, we know there aren’t enough women in tech. [Didact: According to what metric, exactly? Other than the author’s ridiculous view that men and...

The lesson of the Spartan women

Helen of Sparta I don’t remember how I came across this- my opposite number from the old homestead probably sent it to me at some point- but if you want a great argument against universal suffrage from the past, look no further than the example of what happened...