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Le Meilleur Des Mondes.

Posted by gil on January 3, 2010

“The Best of All Worlds” is where we live today. Unfortunately humanity has bipolar disorder. Find an asteroid on a collision course with earth, and all the industrial nations of the world would chip-in to build a spacecraft and go blow it up. After that, we’d just go back to killing each-other. History is full [...]

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Swords as a Home Self Defense Option.

Posted by gil on September 16, 2009

An often overlooked home self defense option is the sword. They work as well today as they did centuries ago.

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The Best Sailboats You Can Build.

Posted by gil on January 20, 2009

Building a sailboat may seem like a daunting task, but like any big project, if you keep at it, you eventually finish. People build houses, airplanes, barns, cars, you name it, they build it in their backyard. You used to be able to buy a sturdy boat ready to cross oceans. Early fiberglass boats were [...]

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Women Want to be Victims.

Posted by gil on January 17, 2009

Violence against women and girls is widespread; one woman in three will experience violence during her lifetime, most often at the hands of someone she knows. Don’t crucify me about the title, I just wanted to get your attention, because if you are a woman, what you will read here, and what you do about [...]

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Systema in a Broader Sense.

Posted by gil on January 8, 2009

Reading William Gibson’s novel, “Spook Country,” I first thought of his mention of Systema as unrelated to the Russian Martial art I practice. In the novel, the protagonists are Cuban spies working with the Russians in the United States. They live by a protocol of secrecy they call Systema. I thought of it as tradecraft, [...]

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