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ATHLETES AT RISK: 7 Tips to Prevent Sexual Abuse, Misconduct
Fourth in a 5-part series By Cathy Chapaty I’ve made a plethora of mistakes in my martial arts teaching career that horrify me today. Years ago, I: Took a 15-year-old student out to dinner at the behest of his parents.
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The No-BS Guide to Gun Control and the Second Amendment
So, let’s start with an agreement. Before you rush to the comments section to whine, cry or blather on about the article let’s at least agree that you will read this in its entirety. You won’t skim, you won’t stop
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Ad Hominem: Attacking the Researcher Just as Effective as Discrediting the Research
Do facts upset you? Do you not like the results of Scientific research? Boy do we have great news for you! That’s right, instead of analyzing studies for flawed methods or bad data, you can just call the researcher a
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That Time a Real Ninja Carried out an Assassination on Live Television
As real as any “Ninja” in the modern era is–and don’t get us started on all the doughy suburban white dudes who cosplay as ninjas. On this day in 1960, 17 year old Otoya Yamaguchi assassinated the leader of the Japanese
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How to Spot a BS Argument #2: Ergo Decedo
If you don’t like this article, then GTFO. Just kidding, we need the ad revenue. But seriously, that’s how this fallacy works… or rather, doesn’t work. Because it’s a fallacy; it literally* doesn’t work… except as an argument by someone spewing
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Why Stupidity is the Greatest Threat to Western Civilization
This is not going to be a popular opinion. This is going to hurt some feelings. Good. Imagine there’s an asteroid streaking across the galaxy straight for Earth. At first, it’s detected by long-range telescopes. An enthusiastic-if-poorly-bathed Astronomer wearing Crocs
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“Both sides are just as bad” – Why assholes make False Equivalence arguments
You’re in middle school and it’s been a crappy week: your parents are pissed off about you getting a B even though your siblings are basically delinquents. Your teachers have long since stopped giving a shit about their jobs. The
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Razors – Weapons of Intellectual Self Defense in the Age of Bullshit
Have you ever been in an argument with someone who laid on the bullshit so thick you couldn’t cut through it? Well Bullshido’s here to help. This is the first in a series of articles we are putting together to
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The Corey Weissman Scam
The Corey Weissman Scam – a Lesson in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gear trading and the secondary market Who is Corey Weissman? A Tae Kwon Do practitioner that turned to BJJ and worked his way up to Purple Belt, training at
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