So in addition to karate kamp, I have a new reason for muscle soreness today. Kathy and I spent part of the weekend digging a ditch. Or rather, not digging, but digging out. Along one side of our property runs an irrigation ditch. We get precious little use out of it, since due to the […]

I spent Friday at the karate school, doing stuff. Doing lots of stuff. It was the quarterly organizational meeting, so the school was full of school owners and managers from New Mexico, Arizona, and elsewhere. So we started out with all the self-defense techniques, of which I have heard there are 749 (I haven’t counted, […]

According to the Scotsman, a recent archaeological dig has turned up evidence that Viking women wore metal brassieres. Apparently this ingenious technological advance was suppressed for a millennium or so by the Church. Archaeologist Annika Larsson sez: “The garments had an aesthetic lingerie effect as well as providing support. I think Viking women would have […]

Our friends in Turkey are living through interesting times.Firstly, members of the “Deep State” have been arrested for, among other things, conspiring to assassinate the Nobel Prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk. Supposedly this killing was the beginning of a series of bombings and assassinations that would lead to a military coup overthrowing Turkey’s (moderate) Islamic government […]