Chiron

Anonymous writes: First, sorry for the anonymous, just don't have any of the id's that would allow me to leave my name and for what ...

I may have written about this before. "Begging the question" is a debating fallacy, where you make a statement that has some assum...

One of the most under-trained and critical skills in both self-defense and Defensive Tactics is articulation .  Explaining what you did and ...

I've blogged almost nothing this month. Not because it has been one of the times of great balance and contentment, my usual reason for ...

Doing another on-line class for Savvy authors. One of the things I am trying to get through is that different people in different places an...

The first part of the day was just walking, exploring. Later I went away from the town, up into the desert hills. Took the path that was to...

The to-do list covers a good-sized white board. Two e-books out (The first two years of the blog collected, see the pretty little covers d...

Winter of 2010/2011 is shaping up to be something dark. Last night, at about 1700 Eastern time, Vicki died.  Pancreatic cancer.  A remarkabl...

One of the most robust (meaning least likely to change over time) personality traits is the "locus of control." This is one of th...

I just uploaded all of the 2005 Blog entries on Smashwords as an e-book. Over the next couple of months I'll be doing it with all the ...

I’ve written my thought about what it means to be a warrior here , and it certainly annoyed some people. I’m going to take another stab at ...

Not all the comments make it to the comment section. I personally only ever delete obvious spam, but occasionally I get an e-mail notice an...

SWAT teams were first formed about the time that a lot of people entering law enforcement had combat experience in Vietnam.  They had specia...

Criminals are very good at getting you act in ways that go against your self-interest.  Whether it is the archetypal pimp at the bus station...

Two ideas here that I feel might form a matrix. They might explain a lot. I’ve already mentioned that increasing self-esteem increases...

Started this post on the way back from Tim's funeral. Time to end it now. It will be three days on the road in a few hours. Everyone is...

Up until 1985, it was completely legal for an officer to shoot a suspect merely for running away.  Going clear back to English Common Law, r...

Unfocused thoughts right now, about edge-walking and writing. There are people far more qualified who don't write...and there are much b...

It always bothers me when people say, "There are no rules in a street fight." That's just ignorance. Of course there are rule...

Just signed the contract for "Citizen's Guide to Police Use of Force."  I'm sure the title won't survive, but there it...