“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.”

Blitzkrieg

Jesus Double Facepalm: That is how badly you FAIL “Lightning war” is quite simply the only way to describe what Germany did to Brazil yesterday. Now normally I could not give a toss about this odd sport named “football”- something that you...

My kind of burger joint

The kind that not only allows armed diners into the premises, but arms the waitresses too: How does a Swiss and Wesson grilled cheese for lunch sound?  Or a Guac 19 burger for dinner?  And would you like to attend a concealed carry class after your...

Individual thought patterns

[This post might take its name from one of the greatest and most important death metal albums ever produced, but it has no overarching theme or specific purpose. It’s just a catalog of thoughts and ideas stemming from a recent trip.] The Healing Road I love...

Ghost Rider

In 1998, Neil Peart, the greatest goddamn drummer of all ti- er, I mean, the drummer and lyricist of RUSH, lost his daughter in a freak accident as she was driving to college. Shortly after that, he lost his wife to cancer, though he maintained that she died from a...

Welcome to the Great Frozen North

Look up “irony” in the dictionary, and this is what you’ll see So I landed back in the (formerly) Land of the Free last Saturday morning, after a quite painful and arduous 26-hour journey halfway across the world, jet-lagged out of my mind, to find...

A Single Dude on Indian women…

Charlie Bushmeister had some highly amusing commentary from his recent trip to India: I have been to 50 countries now, and I can say without reservation that India is the absolute worst place for women I have even been. I can think of no place less suitable for a...

“Maw, fetch mah huntin’ rifle…”

Can someone please explain the appeal of this idiotic new phenomenon to me? Yes, you saw that right- reindeer antlers and big stupid red nose ON A FREAKIN’ CAR. I’m all in favour of Christmas spirit, but this is going a bit bloody far. I’ve been...

Notes from an(other) Asian wedding

I got back last weekend from a week in Calcutta. That particular time of year, around about mid-December, is always considered particularly “auspicious” for weddings (don’t ask me why, I don’t understand pagan festival timings very well),...

A good death

I just got back this morning from a trip to the old country to visit my extended family. It was, without question, the single most painful journey I’ve ever undertaken, for a number of reasons. At a certain point in your life, people important to you from your...

Singapore meetup

It looks like the M(A)ndrosphere is growing into a real, living phenomenon now. There was Roosh’s event in D.C. last year, the Las Vegas Meetup of Doom (apparently no one who went to it can quite remember everything that happened in the same order,...