I recently finished watching "Wild Wild Country", the six part Netflix series about the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later known as "Osho"), his power hungry assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and their community of followers in the Rajneeshpuram in Oregon. It was an astonishing ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 17, 2018

Before I began to seriously practice Martial Arts, I thought that guys with the biggest muscles and the meanest looks were the toughest fighters. I would always be awed by guys in my secondary school (that's high school for you Americans) who could lift lots of weight and had ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In this episode of The Daily Banter's Meaning of Life Podcast, Ben and Vazken discuss their love for Martial Arts and how it can be viewed as a metaphor for life. The podcast is not just for fight fans, as there is a philosophical and spiritual aspect to the Martial Arts that ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

(Image source: Unknown) The UFC and MMA in general is a steroid epidemic. They've started this really stringent testing and everybody is getting popped. They're just getting popped left and right. It's one of the things fighters have been saying for a long time, that everyone is ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Not exactly sure how many of our readers are plugged into the world of Mixed Martial Arts, but there's a pretty funny ad that has come out casting two UFC fighters as 'political' candidates for the the UFC welterweight championship. The fight, a big one in the MMA world, features ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In our work obsessed, 24/7, productivity driven society, more is always seen as best. Work harder, longer and without breaks and you will reap the benefits. Or so we might think. While sleeping during the day is generally regarded as lazy behavior in the eyes of a corporate ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016