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  • Another Way, Part 3

    This is the last in a series of reflections on the individual warrior's approach to inter-personal violence. You can read the previous parts here, here, here, and here. The first stage in a warrior's development is when his primary motivation is the challenge presented by the enemy. Through prop…

  • Another Way, Part 2

    Sorry these are coming slowly and painfully. Truthfully it's only partially because I'm busy. Mostly I just don't feel like writing anything serious right now. I would rather read Dr. Seuss out loud to a bunch of kids. It would be a lot more fun.The second part of the development of a warrior is whe…

  • Five Years of MMA Interviews

    Today officially makes it five years that I've been doing MMA interviews with professional fighters. The first one I did was with Lee Shone on March 18th, 2007 during the heyday of the now-defunct myNetSpot website. That marks half a decade of unpaid mixed martial arts journalism. http://www.myspac…

  • Impersonal Warfare

    In my last post I talked about sneering and mistrust as the natural way for a soldier to deal with the reality of his work. The vast majority of modern wars (with significant exceptions) are matters of masses of anonymous men seeking out and killing masses of other anonymous men. That, at least, is…

  • Why I Pray for Peace

    When I was a teenager I dreamed of getting into a firefight, or a standup knife-fight to the death. I dreamed of being a combat hero and killing hundreds of enemies singlehandedly. I wanted to kill a bad guy because, in my mind, that represented some sort of rite of passage into warriorhood. It i…

  • What I Mean By Knighthood

    @Democrab Part of an ongoing discussion on chivalry. You can read the foregoing here and here. @QuantumStorm I disagree that there are very many men who practice knighthood as a smokescreen for their use of women. On the contrary, I would say that finding a man who espouses true old-fashioned knight…

  • Team Xtreme

    Now this is an amazing team! Team Xtreme

  • I'm SUCH a musical genius.

    Like every Asian out there. Because really, guys, everyone knows that giving an Asian a violin and a bow is like giving birth to the next Mozart. I think that's the funny thing about Asian stereotypes: some of them may not even be intended to come across as mean, but we Asians still don't like the…

  • Eye of the Storm

    A young man, old enough to shave, was walking home from work one evening and took a back street behind the local super market, which he usually didn’t take. He saw that there was a martial arts dojo on that street and as he walked past the door a man came out with a gym bag in one hand and a wooden…

  • Faceoff: Ninja vs Samurai

    Originally posted January 12, 2012 @ 9:09 PM. Inspired by the episode The Finder from the TV show "Bones". Alrighty, people. BIG question. Who would win during a faceoff between a ninja and a samurai? What are the pros/cons for each? I will forewarn you that any foul play (ie: ninja star throwing,…