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Autumn The days are getting shorter. It’s cooler. It’s definately cooler at night. We enjoy building a fire in the backyard on a cool evenin...

Below is an excerpt from an online magazine named InYo. It's about the early exposure of jujitsu to the West. If you click on the titl...

The 36 Strategies is a widely known guide to learning the art of strategy, which is second only to The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Where the Art ...

This is a reprint of an article I posted in 2006. Over 300 years ago, Western Civilization was nearly overrun by Islam. The seeming unstoppa...

Nemesis, the Goddess of implacable justice, visits divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris.

One of my daughters brought home a great movie, which I hadn't seen before: The Bucket List . It stars Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson...

A lot of things leapt to mind when I came across this one. Be careful of what you ask for. There's a certain amount of hubris in taking ...

A blast from the past. The story of the Cucumber Sage. If you click on the title of this post, you'll be directed to the original page...

One of the great works of Chinese literature, of World literature, is the famous anthology, the 300 Tang Dynasty Poems. The Tang dynasty was...