Every now-and-then a dark seceret is leaked in a novel or movie that exposes a subject so controversial that people think that it surely must be fiction. Examples can be found in Tom Clancy books or movies such as Robert Redford’s “Three Days of the Condor” and George C. Scott’s “The Formula”. Here is where […]
Archive for May, 2013
The Dumbest Person in Congress is Calling it “Quits”
Woo-Hoo! One of the absolute stupidest people in the U.S. Congress is finally calling it quits. That’s right, Michele Bachmann – the wild-eyed zombie-crazed Christian freak of nature will not seek another term in Congress. Proving once again that many people fail upward, Michele-my-belle joins the ranks of Sarah Palin in failed radical right-wing Republitards. […]
MMA Fighter Linked to Boston Bombing Shot by FBI (UPDATE #3)
It looks like Federal agents are whittling away at more suspects linked to the Boston Marathon bombing. From Raw Story: Report: FBI shoots and kills man in Florida connected to Marathon bombing suspect Federal agents shot and killed a man linked to one of the suspects in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing attack after […]
The Utility of Tai Chi Chuan
Readers of the old “Dojo Rat” blog, which began in the fall of 2006, know that martial arts has been one of my passions for over thirty years. It began with wrestling in high school, progressed through Japanese and Korean Karate, some Aikido blended with Jujitsu, and landed in the soft Chinese arts of Bagua, […]
Russian Report: Tsarnaev Trained at U.S.-Sponsered Seminar
Sources in Russia are reporting that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing suspect, was trained at a seminar by a right-wing think-tank. First, here is the report, translated from the original Russian in “Izvestia”: “Tamerlane Tsarnaeva recruited via the Georgian Foundation One of the organizers of the terrorist attack in Boston, studied at the workshop held […]
The Worst Possible Use of a Karate Dojo
Recapping a week from hell recently; The Boston Marathon bombing, the Texas fertilizer plant explosion, Someone shot at a power plant in California, and another at a Tennessee Nuclear plant, and finally the delivery of toxic Ricin letters to President Obama and other public officials: From Raw Story Ricin found in dojo of man charged […]