Below are two excellent, well-researched articles by two Filipinos about Eskrima/Arnis that try to discard the heaps of bullcrap that many Filipino teachers in social studies, in local history, and even in said martial art, still propagate even up to this day and age: 1. That the ten Bornean datus...
We dissidents are having a really hard time these days. There was a time when simply leaving our own country going to reside in another was the ideal way to escape the attention of the various ‘secret police’ forces, that inevitably were attracted to our dissenting views. However, during the...
Look at the ages. 19. 20. 22. 25. 34. 28. 19. Today a female suicide bomber killed 40 or so people. It is an unwanted occupation. We will win when our men and women come home. 20-June1One Soldier was killed and five wounded in three roadside bomb attacks on Coalition force patrols in Diyala province...
I was on vacation last week and got behind. Now I've got more stuff than I know what to do with. First thing's first, I guess. For those of you wondering why there was no BSG on Friday. The week before was the mid-season finale. Current thinking is that the last half of the season will start in...
Book: Show us a great comic book. Black Origins of Captain America
Martin van Creveld, in the groundbreaking The Transformation of War, wrote: "Once the legal monopoly of armed force, long claimed by the state, is wrested out of its hands, existing distinctions between war and crime will break down much as is already the case in . . . Lebanon, Sri Lanka, El...
