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Benjamin Espen

CrossFit 2014-11-19

3 RM deadlift * 275# PR! Tequila Montoya 3 rounds * 400m run * 21 pullups * 12 hang squat snatches [75#] Time 23:18

His Share of Glory Book Review

His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C. M. Kornbluth NESFA Press 1997 $27.00; 670 pages ISBN 0-915368-60-9 I picked up this volume because I had read the [almost] titular short story "That Share of Glory" in Jerry Pournelle's Imperial Stars: The

The Long View 2002-07-05: The International Criminal Court

Partly as a matter of personality, and partly as a matter of profession, I care very much about the letter of the law. Thus I find myself very sympathetic to John's legal reading of the Rome Statue that governs the International Criminal Court. Since I am not a

The Long View 2002-07-01: Don't Pick Fights about God

John talks a lot of sense here. It is pretty easy to get wrapped around the axle on issues of religious freedom, but the most important take-away here is that First Amendment law as applied to the states is a very recent invention, and the overt purpose of it was

The Long View: Roosevelt's Spelling Reform

In case you are curious about what changes TR wanted to make to the spelling of English words, here is the list TR sent to his printer; many of the spellings did eventually become standard in American English. Certainly not all, but he seems to have guessed pretty well. Theodore

CrossFit 2014-11-17

3 rep max push press * 130# PR! Big clean complex * High hang squat clean * Hang squat clean * Squat clean * Push press * High hang squat clean * Hang squat clean * Squat clean * Push jerk * High hang squat clean * Hang squat clean * Squat clean * Split jerk Weight: 70-75-80-85-90-95-105# PR! Last time 53-63-73-75-77-78#

CrossFit 2014-11-12

15 minute AMRAP 5 snatches increasing ladder, 3 rounds * 1 snatch [75#] * 1 snatch [80#] * 1 snatch [85#] * 1 snatch [90#] * 1 snatch [95#] Pause front squats 2 reps on the minute for 10 minutes * 125# Burner AMRAP 5 minutes, 2 rounds * 5 pullups * 10 pushups * 15 squats Rounds: 4+