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Benjamin Espen

The Long View 2002-01-23 The Sins of the Father

I would describe John as a cautious fan of George W. Bush. While this surely will mark him as suspect in many eyes, since W was widely despised, the reasons for John's assessment are unique. For instance, he felt that we would have had a war with Iraq

The Long View 2002-01-22 Heroes & Nitwits

It was 9-11 that initially brought me to John's site. As I've said, John was one of the most reasonable people I ever knew, and his home in New Jersey was right across the Hudson from the WTC. John was a voice of sanity in those

The Long View 2002-01-21 Crusaders

One of the reasons I wanted to look back over John's writings 12 years later, is I'm curious how well his predictions turned out. One of John's intellectual interests was what he called macrohistory or metahistory, the study of models of history. In the

The Long View

The Long View

On May 30, 2012, my friend John J. Reilly passed from this vale of tears after a sudden illness. John and I never met in person, but we exchanged emails and forum posts for nearly ten years, so I feel that I knew him in a way. John was one

CrossFit 2014-02-03

Benching like L AMRAP 20 * 21 bench press [100#] * 21 tuck pullups Rounds 2 + 23 reps

CrossFit 2014-02-04

All kinds of strict 3 rounds for time * 9 band-assisted chest-to-bar pullups * 9 ring dips * 6 bar-assisted handstand pushup * 12 pistols each leg, to a folded mat Time 16:17

CrossFit 2014-02-05

Pick bar up, put bar down Deadlift 1-1-1-1-1 225-245-250-255-F-255#