“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.”

How to fail completely on a date

Despite the rude things I say about women and feminists- both online and in person- my sister and I remain very close, which is why whenever she comes over we try to spend some time together and go out for a nice dinner somewhere at least once. The other night we were...

Domain Query: Mo’ women, mo’ problems

The venerable Halfbreed had a question regarding my post on marriage: What are your thoughts on plural marriage? You know, sister wives?Let’s get the doctrinaire stuff out of the way right now: for reasons moral, economic, spiritual, and practical, I am...

Introverts and marriage

The Need for Monogamous Marriage Reading through the reams of literature out there about the dangers and downsides of marriage, one is tempted to come to the conclusion that in the modern world, there is no such thing as a good reason to get married. Horror stories...

(Not exactly) A field report

Another weekend, another opportunity to post about introverted game. In all honesty, the reason I don’t post about game much- or as much as I should- is because I haven’t done very much about it for a while. That said, on Friday evening an opportunity came...

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...

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),...

And now, a few words from Anonymous Conservative…

AC was kind enough to respond back to me about my review of his book a while ago. With his permission, I’ve printed some of his remarks about his work so that you can understand just why his book is so important, and why I believe you should read what he writes....

Be a Man: Money and Freedom

It’s been a bloody long while since I last did one of these, and I figure it’s time to look at one of the most underrated aspects of the self-aware man: money. If game, or charisma, or mastery, or whatever you want to call it, is about anything, it is...

“You’re ALL crazy”

Riddle me this, Batman: how do you push a feminist’s buttons to the point of a near-total meltdown? Well, you could try this approach. Or you could do what I did a few weeks ago when my little sister came over to stay with me. This is pretty much how the...