CrossFit 2015-08-24
Shoulder Press
* 95#
Build to a heavy front squat +push press + squat thruster complex
* 130#
Death by Thruster
Minute 1, 1 thruster, minute 2, 2 thrusters, ....
Score: 7 rounds at 83#
Benjamin Espen
The Long View: The Coming Collapse of China
Gordon Chang keeps being wrong about China, he predicted in 2001 there would be a revolution by 2006, but I can see how his story is compelling, attractive even. There are lots of things the Chinese do that it seems like you just cannot keep doing, but they keep on
The Long View 2003-04-03: Consider the Alternatives
Here is an interesting one on the Euro and Germany. John felt that Germany couldn't pursue a sane fiscal policy because of the Euro. Twelve years later, this turned out to be very true, but not precisely for the reasons John thought. He did get the overall dynamic
The Long View 2003-03-28: Police War
I think it was John who first pointed me to Eamonn Fingleton. Fingleton is one of the few journalists who seems to truly understand Japan, and be willing to say what he thinks in public. I suspect this is a matter of personality, since in many cases you can read
The Long View 2003-03-23: Psychology Today
This little bit on the psychological aspects of warfare is still pertinent twelve years later. One might think that the vast disparity in arms between the United States and everyone else would mean we are unstoppable. This is true, if someone is so foolish as to meet us on our
The Long View 2003-03-21: The Nyarlathotep Left
Perhaps with a better class of antiwar activists in the US, we might be spared further Imperial adventures. It was hard to argue against the Iraq War in the US after 9/11. However, even now, antiwar activism really doesn't have any friends.
The Nyarlathotep Left
H. P.
CrossFit 2015-08-19
50' overhead yoke carry
* 155#
* 175# F
Russell
5 rounds
* 12 power cleans [105#]
* 20 burpees
* 78 m sandbag carry [varied]
Time 27:15