Texas Calculatem and Poker Office Blog

Politics is boring, but I found an interesting petition on facebook that is trying to stop Gordon Brown being handed the country on a plate. Click here to sign the petition.

I've missed the blogger tourney for the last couple of weeks. Not because Texas Calculatem let me down, but because I've been slack with other things. Two weeks ago I watched the quality zombie flick 28 Weeks Later. And this week I was helping to babysit a load of todlers.

However, despite my lack of worshipping, I've somehow caused a bit of controversy on Reeling Silk, after voicing an unappreciated view on a Tai Chi demonstration video. To stop things getting too heated I'm therefore hiding here instead.

I haven't done that much in the way of martial arts training lately. I'm old, fat and lazy, and cancelled my Saturday stick fighting session due to rain. But one thing I've often wondered is why you rarely see exponents of the more traditional arts involved in mixed martial art contests. Surely they have a moral obligation to show the public that practising the more modern arts is a fallacy? Wouldn't it be nice to prove to unfortunate kickboxers, that if they wanted to learn to defend themselves, they could do more effectively than by kicking each other in the head week after week?