“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.”

Oh, Canada…

… why, oh why, did you go and elect such a smug, arrogant, insufferable, stupid, Socialist (but I repeat myself) MORON as your Prime Minister?!? I ask again, how exactly did this clown get elected? Ah. I see. Basically what happened was that a lot more...

If walls don’t work…

… then why did the Roman Emperor Hadrian order the construction of one? Although Hadrian’s biographer wrote “(Hadrian) was the first to build a wall 80 miles long to separate the Romans from the barbarians”, reasons for the construction of the...

A voice of reason

Bruce “THE VOICE OF YAHWEH” Dickinson, also known as the singer of THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME (that is to say, IRON MAIDEN), has some rather sensible and intelligent things to say about the value of Brexit: Reading through the comments that other...

The fall of the Middle Kingdom

One of the very first Western expatriates to settle in China and acculturate into their rather unique society offers a very interesting perspective on the realities of modern China, and on why he thinks that the true Golden Age of China is more or less over at this...

Anyone got any stocks of Johansen Virus?

SF/F author, veteran, general all-round badass, and sometime nutcase John Ringo created a sci-fi series about 8 years ago called Troy Rising, which described a near-future Earth under embargo by an alien race, and humanity’s response to it. The whole series is...

The wisdom of St. John of Damascus

Below is given the the testimony of St. John of Damascus and his comments on what he knew to be “the superstition of the Ishmaelites”, and what we today call “Islam”. It is informative to the modern reader because it shows us that many of the...

Big brass ones

To people on the righteously awesome side of the Atlantic – y’know, the one with all of the guns, and the gun nuts, and the ammo – the United Kingdom of PommieBastardLand seems like it is full of effete limp-wristed wusses who come over all polite...

The God-Emperor and the United Abominations

President Donaldus Triumphus Magnus condescended to allow delegates from the lesser nations of the Earth to listen to his words of wisdom, badassitude, and all-round general awesomeness a couple of days ago. As is usual whenever this particular POTUS makes a speech,...

General Sherman was right

General William Tecumseh Sherman is not usually someone that I particularly like to quote. His March to the Sea basically broke the back of the Confederacy by inflicting appalling brutality upon the population of Georgia, leaving a swathe of destruction some 60 miles...

While we’re discussing rednecks…

… here are a few songs of the South that I actually happen to like – because, hey, they’re good. A reader sent over a few song recommendations for some deep-fried country music. Now, I realise that to most people it must seem extremely weird that a...