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It’s tough. It’s often painful. But you’ll walk down the street knowing you have a good right cross. Need an overview of styles? Look here. For those interested in mixed martial arts, check out some more links here. Trying to find the right school for you? For those in Chicagoland, I recommend my school (of […]

And then you get us pissed off: According to women’s rights activists in the area (Nagpur, India), men who rape are frequently let off by the courts, and helped by police. This weekend, 50 women — led by a rape victim — burnt down the houses of three rapists who had been attacking women for

So, it’s finally hit USA Today. I’d heard rumors of scattered pharmacists refusing to fill contraceptive perscriptions to women, but now we’ve got a nice article all about it. This should scare the shit out of men at least half as much as it should scare the shit out of women. If you don’t want

There’s actually a competitive sport called wife carrying. Finland – like other geographic locations that are cold and dark half the year – comes up with some bizarre ways to pass the time. They even set up an obstacle course for participants. What’s the background? Back in the day: “Raids on surrounding villages, with the

Ned, the big regional VP, came in yesterday to pick up his mail, and he said it looks like we’ll be ramping up next week – that is, we’ve either just signed or are very nearly signing a contract, and it’s time to pack up the office with employees again and get busy. Yellow departed

On the way home from kickboxing tonight, I was reading Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast (believe it or not, yes, I’m a Hemingway fan). And I stumbled across this lovely passage: “There is not much future in men being friends with great women although it can be pleasant enough before it gets better or worse, and

The world bores me today. As today is Bomb the Shit Out of Fallujah day, I find it appropriate that I drop off the radar early and get back to work on my blood & sand novel. I need to hit 54 pages today

NEW YORK (AP) — A 25-year-old from Georgia who was distraught over President Bush’s re-election apparently killed himself at Ground Zero.

Amanda’s got some thoughts up on a silly Salon piece about the still-popular idea that women should only be dating men who are taller than they are. Television continues to push the monstrous sexual dimorphism thing for no good reason, except to make people feel bad about themselves if they’re not paired up “correctly” (or

There’s an interesting interview up with novelist Tom Wolfe – “I do think that if you are not having a fight with somebody, then you are not sure whether you are alive when you wake up in the morning.”