Category: Book, Movie, and Web Reviews


Scot’s Product Review: Panteao Productions Make Ready to Survive Video Series

I recently reviewed a couple of videos on weapons craft from Panteao Productions and found them quite useful. Panteao recently released its first three videos in a series on survival. The press release says they will have a total of thirteen videos, which are to be released over the next few months, to cover the full range of survival topics, from weapons to medicinal plants. One of the things that impressed me about the first two videos I watched was the quality of the instructors– Bill Jeans and Freddie Blish. The survival videos use five instructors, all of whom have …








JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:

Books Starting a New Life in Rural America: 21 Things You Need to Know Before You Make Your Move by Ragnar Benson Physicians Drug Handbook Fiction Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace Movies The Great Escape The Omega Man (It has far too many 1970s cliches, but it’s still worth watching. More recently re-made as I Am Legend which was only passable.)


Scot’s Product Review: Panteao Productions, LLC

The ability to learn is, in my view, about the most important of the many gifts God gave us. During my stint as a teacher, which continues as I homeschool my son, I got to study learning styles and the ways people manage to accumulate knowledge. Some of us best learn to do something by reading about it. Others best learn if someone tells them how to do it. Then there are those who best learn by seeing others do it, and finally there are those who can only learn if they do it themselves. While I remain convinced that …



JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:

Books Emergency War Surgery (NATO Handbook:- Third United States Revision, 2004) by Dr. Martin Fackler, et al. Great Livin’ in Grubby Times by Don Paul Fiction Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Movies Farewell to the King The Road Warrior, aka Mad Max movies (Mad Max 2 “The Road Warrior” is by far the best of the three, although Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome has its merits.) These movies are gruesome in sots, so they are definitely NOT for children!


JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:

Books Adventure Medical Kits A Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness & Travel Medicineby Eric A. Weiss, M.D. Rodale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener Fiction The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton Movies Enemy at the Gates Schindler’s List (BTW, it is too bad that Spielberg didn’t show Oskar Schindler arming his Jewish employees, which is what actually happened.)