Don’t worry that you can’t read this. It doesn’t matter. Just watch the awesomeness in the video at the bottom.

The woman in white is Olga Ivanova, Taekwando world champion. She intervenes when some dude is harassing a woman as she is passing by. It was filmed by a dashcam (very common in Russian cars).

What Olga does is the difference between training in real combat and not having it. I am in no way blaming the woman being assaulted, but notice she hits the guy several times and it has no effect. No training there.

Olga lands one not-all-that-hard kick in the right place and the guy goes down instantly. She most likely kicks him in the lower sternum, the same place that EMTs do the sternal rub. The reason is that doing anything to that spot is extremely, EXTREMELY painful. In fact, kick or punch someone there hard enough and it will kill them. At the least it will cause great pain and knock the air out of you.

Just from her poise and stance before she does anything at all you can tell that she has training, like you can always recognize a ballerina even when they aren’t dancing.

I don’t read comic books. I am just terrible at visual processing and can’t really understand them.

But when I was a little kid, I was gaga over the 1970s TV version of Wonder Woman. I had no shame in carrying my Wonder Woman lunchbox to school after my grandparents bought me one.

I have no idea if watching Wonder Woman turned me into a little feminist. But it certainly didn’t hurt. This relates to something I was discussing with my girlfriend, about how the Left is just terrible at propaganda and PR while the Right excels at it.

Marston put it this way: “Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.”

Disdain for PR efforts means that the Left consistently loses where it should win. On the Left, there should be equivalents of the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute; there is not. This means the Left will lose battles over and over even when they have a large majority.

Interesting that one side of the political spectrum consistently loses battles where it should easily dominate while one side goes nearly insane and still prevails effortlessly.

Anyway, the Wonder Woman TV show while not that good demonstrates that we’ve actually regressed a bit from the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. A show like that – with a woman superhero – would not get made today.

Role models matter. The Left needs to take the creation of Wonder Woman and use that as a lesson for how to proceed.

Bad design reigns supreme now.

Nominally, this sort of design disaster is intended for tablets. However, having enormous header elements and too-large headlines actually makes it more difficult to read on a tablet. (Yep, just checked on my iPad.)

So what is the purpose of it, design-wise? It’s not easier to read. Not on a phone, desktop machine or tablet. It doesn’t use less bandwidth and isn’t more attractive.

I’m not sure, then. Just to change, I think, and it follows myrmidon-like all the latest worthless design manias.

Not sure if I’ll keep reading that site now. It’s design is just painfully bad in every way.