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Looking For My Tickle

Tickling your opponent to win a UFC fight. What comes to mind? Sheer unmanliness? Bush league? Genius? Something very close to that actually happened last year. In an amateur MMA match in Maine, fighter Mason Lewis got trapped in a nasty choke. No angle, no leverage, he was doomed. So

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Stealing Signs

Chris Correa, an employee of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team, hacked into the computer system of the Houston Astros. Over a period

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Can’t Think of Anything

I’ve started this piece several times over the last two weeks, and each time I got deflected and went on to something else like eating,

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My Syrian Driver

Last weekend I took a Uber downtown. After a few minutes of chit chat, my driver told me he was an immigrant from Syria who

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Have a Good Password?

Maybe the pen is mightier than the sword, or so it seems in the worlds of crime and, lately, politics. What with the Russians hacking

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Psyched for 2017!

This is my first Swarfblog of 2017 and it’s not about the Cubs. I am grateful to be able to continue writing it and grateful

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