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Review: Blood in the Cage by Wertheim (2009)

Like any good bout in the sport of mixed martial arts that Wertheim describes so well, this book is fast-paced and entertaining. This is an important work that documents and discusses the phenomenal success of MMA in recent years and will likely become a standard for those new to the sport.

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Jujutsu Suffragettes

On November 18, 1910...300 suffragettes marched on the House of Commons. In a public relations disaster, police were caught on film assaulting unarmed women attempting to march past.

Militant suffragettes eventually upped the physical level of their own campaigns and smashed shop windows, burned and even bombed on occasion...

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• Hacked- looks like somebody got in with a robot and added malicious scripts to the index files. Not sure yet if it was a WP exploit or something from the server end, but I'm working on it. Might go ahead and upgrade the theme and WP while I'm at it, if so the site could be down or wonky for a few days. #
• I remember seeing a cane once based on the Polish Ciupaga or a variant. While all wood, it had (more...) #
• I'm back, so now we can all rest easy. Let me ease back in by pointing out a few places where you can pan some gold: (1) Stickgrappler's site. It must have been ten years ago that I first met this cat. A family man and (at the time) finance guy, he was (more...) #
• Hey all, I'm still around even though I haven't posted in awhile. I'll be back to posting relatively soon (I've got some great topics, they just need to be actually written), but in the meantime Patrick Parker over at www.mokurendojo.com is about to hit 1000 posts. What a great success- not only quantity, but quality too, so be sure to check out his site. #
• March was very frustrating, beginning with a month-long fight with my webhost (Startlogic) over abysmal loading speeds and then following with being rear-ended in an auto collision mid-month. Not much fun considering it all followed a separated rib after eating a knee during some stickfighting. April is looking up: my son was born April 1st and the wife and kid are both doing well. I hope to get back in the swing of things in a week or two, but sleep is short right now, so bear with me. #