The Cornered Cat
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Depressing statistics

Men who are murdered are overwhelmingly murdered by strangers. But more than a third of women who are murdered, are killed by husbands and boyfriends and other people they  know. (See crime statistics here.) This puts a very, very different … Continue reading

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Underestimated = Superpower

“I have an idea that the phrase ‘weaker sex’ was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.” – Ogden Nash My take: The element of surprise is a true advantage for people interested in … Continue reading

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Work in Progress (It’s Okay…)

“We walk a fine line in acknowledging that perfection in equipment and training are not and should not be required, and encouraging the pursuit of the ideal. We don’t want to support spraying wild bullets everywhere on the one hand, … Continue reading

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Existential Crisis

“We may assume the attacker will be obviously bad, yet that may not be true. They may only be bad in and for that single moment you have to react. There was a church shooting were the perpetrator was member … Continue reading

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Passivity and young people

Good article here: The lesson from 9/11 that millennials have yet to learn Fave quote: “Girls and boys and men and women need to think seriously about what to do in the event of unexpected violence, and how to act. … Continue reading

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“Fight like a cornered cat”

As most people who read this blog know by now, one of my taglines is, “If you have to fight, fight like a cornered cat.” When people hear me say that, they tend to assume that I mean that you … Continue reading

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I blame MacGyver

This is something I’ve thought about a bit. And the conclusion I’ve come to (for now) is something like this: it is one thing to use whatever you have, however you can, to save your own life in the heat … Continue reading

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The *other* phone call

Some years ago, I was talking to Paul Lathrop​ of the Polite Society Podcast​ when he asked me if I had ever gotten “the phone call” — you know, the one from a student telling me that something I taught … Continue reading

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