CrossFit 2015-06-01
Push Press x3
* 135# PR!
Maya
5 rounds
* 5 burpee box jumps [20"]
* 15 overhead squats [1 round at 75#, 4 rounds at 45#]
* 200m run
Time 16:02
Latest
CrossFit 2015-05-22
3 RM Back Squat
* 175#
Master's Qualifier Event #3
2 rounds for time
* 1000m row
* 50 thrusters [45#]
* 30 pullups
Time 27:04
CrossFit 2015-05-20
3 RM Shoulder Press
* 100#
Press biathlon, run 200m every time you take a break
* 25 strict presses 65#
* 25 strict presses 45#
* 25 strict presses 35#
Time 14:28
2003-02-21: Imperial Catechism
While John was a fan of TR, he did admit that the colonies Teddy Roosevelt so enthusiastically helped to acquire were useless, both geostrategically and in domestic politics. However, when John talks about empire, the acquisition of Puerto Rico and the Philippines isn't what he means.
The empire
The Long View 2003-02-16: Bottle this Moment
Tomorrow we will return to our regularly scheduled program of Spengler and cyclical theories of history. It has been a little painful to relive John's commentary on the run-up to the Iraq war, knowing what I know now. However, I think it is necessary, because it helps us
The Long View 2003-02-13: Delusions
Unfortunately, delusions is about the best thing I can say about this post of John's.
Delusions
unobtainable
That's almost true. I find that I do have three spools of duct tape, for some reason. I also for many years have been in the habit of storing
The Long View 2003-02-05: Powell at the UN; Columbia; Impossibilities
In a followup to Sunday's repost of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, here is a newsgroup post detailing why you couldn't have possibly matched the orbit of the shuttle to the ISS, among other things.
John wasn't a physicist or an aerospace engineer, so