The thing you really need to know about the humans is that they are not big fans of chaos. They have some sort of fundamental issue with entropy, I guess, or maybe they just don't understand it ( Read more... )

“Welcome, ladies and gentlemen ( Read more... )

November 1963 ( Read more... )

Nobody appreciates us vets anymore. It's almost enough to make me want to go back to Iran sometimes, you know ( Read more... )

Welcome to the Battlesmith Program, soldier. You'll start your technical training in a few minutes, and they'll introduce you to all the relevant elements and components and teams and go over history and all of that. But before that, we like to have someone on the senior staff ease you in with some big-picture context, because if you're anything ( Read more... )

I tried again: “Mrs. Cavanagh, you can’t go out ( Read more... )

When, at last, humanity perfected the nanoscale ultra-intelligence breakthrough, the new species of microbial super-beings quickly came to a consensus on what it was they should do as their First Objective ( Read more... )

When is my next science class ( Read more... )

There was a time, of course, when the concept of Highland Clans were genuinely family-centric and the wars they used to have (and oh, what wars!) were clashes of one gene pool against another. MacDonald and Campell especially would throw down in utterly bestial fashion from time to time, all gussied up in their respective plaids, and the blood ( Read more... )

"You kids have it so easy these days ( Read more... )