Mike, hope the interview went well. Hope you also didn't catch much BS from B.S, MD, admissions guy, who tried to bill me for out of state down there after the office of virginia registry confirmed my instate status. I hadn't quit Uechi by any means, but a full hard workout had become unfamiliar ...

I get to write from the perspecitve of an MD who's been thrown hard and who a few months ago had some whoop-ass back pain so severe I could barely rise from a chair and shuffled around like I was 80. The precipitant: probably a combination of a bad mattress and returning to Uechi and running too ...

A few thoughts on the latter two:

The amygdala is where fear and rage come from. Life is always more complex than that kind of simplification, but if you need a simplification, this is where they come from.

In 1939 some adventurous researchers removed the amygdalas in some monkeys and found that ...

And the elbows....

The trouble is identifying the extremists. Sure would be nice if they had it stamped on their pasports. And that's why we have intelligence overseas. But the fact is they don't carry their AK-47's into the airports.

What's your next option? Why, we interrogate all the Muslim men. Not all the ...

What do you do with multi-ethnic people? Log them under multiple groups? What do you do with confusing realities like white people darker than some black people? Or as much diversity among peoples grouped as one race as between? Or with the inability of science to identify any objective way to ...

"Pretty big assumption that there will be an "inevitable" increase in crimes because of ending the war on drugs."

Well, what I meant was that if drugs are legalized, there will be some crimes committed that otherwise wouldn't. Some people who might be scared away by the illegality or health risks ...

Seems a *little* short sighted just to legalize all drugs and then punish people for committing the inevitable crimes that result, doesn't it? A bunch won't be caught, and for each crime there's a victim. Feeds the rot at the centers of some communities and limits the opportunities of everyone that ...

Against whom? Where? We've blown up everyone we could find.... if we had more targets located they wouldn't have waited for an anniversary.

How is it they are planning to require docs to hand over every detail of your medical care to the feds? Seems like a difficult task, because docs can be pains in the asses and might: 1) not do it 2) tell all their patients (remember how well the AARP gets stuff done?) to fight it 3) raise a ruckus ...

Do you need to know credentials? You can believe the guy (or gal) whether novice or expert... most of the famous scientific paradigm shifts in were propelled by relatively inexperienced people, not by the seasoned professors. Maybe documentation would make it a bit more intriguing.

I agree hitting someone in the throat is a last resort... but I think fighting at all is the last resort. If I have to hurt someone, unless it's some I think I can easily and safely control, they're going to get pummeled just for my safety and possibly that of others. I'm not going to spar with ...

A lot of theory in here, some of it fantasy, some of it possible.

I've never heard of an internal jugular being ruptured by blunt trauma, but, Dr. Kelley's text seems to be the place to look these days. Fast death would NOT occur from hemorrhage. There isn't enough room in the neck to loose the ...

Young women, Sensei Moulton's sample aside, have a lot of other stuff on their minds... they're exceeding men in numbers and performance now in college, for one thing. But since they're becoming more and more allowed to talk about sex the way young men have for a long time, we hear it more often ...

Some hand-me-down thoughts from Dr. Glasheen, who's my source on the kata and (I presume) stars in the video you saw.

1) Simon ... Lailey

2) I don't think the kata really was "brought back," by Kanbun. He didn't teach it, from what I've heard. The clues that he saw it or learned it are serial ...