CrossFit 2015-09-11
Farmers Carry 5 times 2x 44# kettlebells
Bad Attitude
5 rounds on the minute
* 200m run
* In remaning time, squat clean thrusters [105#]
Reps 27
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The Long View 2003-04-17: Bad Ideas
One of the fascinating things about American foreign policy is our simultaneous capacity for utter dominance and utter incompetence. Baathists were forbidden from participating in the Iraqi government after the Second Iraq War, by analogy to the Second World War policy of de-Nazification. Unfortunately, this excluded pretty much everyone who
The Long View 2003-04-12: The World United
John's rather broad take on the Enlightenment makes me think of Pope Francis, and Pope Emeritus Benedict. Pope Francis' recent trip to America has been a huge success. From the very first, Francis' style has won over nearly everyone. You cannot find a better example of
The Long View: An Open Letter to E. Michael Jones
I've reproduced this because of the concluding paragraph, which I think is a very interesting point about modernity, not because I have any beef with Jones or his magazine.
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An Open Letter to E. Michael Jones from John J. Reilly
Mike--
[Note: Through an oversight, my name
The Long View 2003-04-08: What Would Hitler Do?
Part of the reason we ended up in such a mess in Iraq is that we had not clue what we were getting ourselves into, compounded with not knowing who we could trust. Our go-to man after the invasion, Ahmed Chalabi, is perhaps better known as Chalabi the Thief. Chalabi
Terms of Play Book Review
Terms of Play: Essays on Words that Matter in Videogame Theory
by Zach Waggoner, editor
McFarland Books, 2013
$40.00; 244 pages
ISBN 978-0-7864-9670-3
I received this book for free as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program.
I have been sitting on this book for two years, so
Hayao Miyazaki's World Picture Book Review
Hayao Miyazaki's World Picture
by Dani Cavallaro
McFarland Books, 2015
$35.00; 204 pages
ISBN 978-0-7864-9647-1
I received this book for free as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program.
I tried to like this book. I love Miyazaki's works, and this book's