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Benjamin Espen

LinkFest 2016-01-01

Posting has been suspended while I'm on vacation, but here are a few quick takes on The Force Awakens. If you haven't seen the movie, you should consider all of these spoilers. PSYCHOLOGY IN STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS – THE MALE HERO HAS VANISHED! I think

LinkFest 2015-12-21

Where America Gets its Winter Lettuce + Lettuce Produces More Greenhouse Gas Emissions than Bacon Does The vast fields of lettuce in Yuma, in all places, are almost enough to drive me to despair. Almost. Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter’s University But Don’

The Long View 2003-08-13: The Battle of Ideas

Unfortunately for John, the equivalent of Stinger missiles in Soviet Afghanistan turned out to be cellphone IEDs. The Battle of Ideas A frontpage story in today's New York Times, Rising Tide of Islamic Militants See Iraq as Ultimate Battlefield has a quote from an Islamist leader that gives

The Long View 2003-08-07: Nifty Catastrophes

With the recent conclusion of the 2015 Paris climate conference, we can see that not much has changed in green politics either. We have an agreement to reduce carbon emissions, alongside a studied ignorance of the likelihood of many of the parties to ignore or elide their targets. Outside of

The Long View: The Future of Freedom

This is a book about the failure of democracy. That is inflammatory language, and I adopt it advisedly. One of John's projects was to show how the best guess we can make, from past experience, is that the world will tire of democracy sometime in the twenty-first century

CrossFit 2015-12-11

5 RM Front squat 95# Charleston Chew 7 rounds * 11 air squats * 10 push jerks [65#] Time 15:23

CrossFit 2015-12-08

Almond joy 5 rounds * 1 rope climb * 12 toes to bar * 1 rope climb * 12 dumbbell squat cleans