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The Long View 2002-04-15: 2002 < 1914

I loved Star Trek: TNG growing up. Looking back, I can see John's point though. The series really was relentlessly PC, but in a sunnier, happier time when PC hadn't metastasized yet. John was also correct in noting that despite popular millennial theology to the contrary

The Long View 2002-04-11: Tobacco, Guns, and Slavery Reparations

This was John's specialty, and it shows. Twelve years later, these topics are still topical, although they have evolved in interesting ways. Tobacco has become quite the pariah following the capitulation of the tobacco companies, but it isn't done yet. Hipsters insist on smoking even though

The Long View: Earthly Powers

Some of John's central ideas about the Papacy are contained herein. The 18th and 19th centuries were a time of rampant nationalism in Europe, and the Pope was the head of the last institution that could effectively resist the nation-state. As the latter half of the nineteenth century

CrossFit 2014-08-28

Overhead squat Heavy single OHS 135# PR! 15 minute EMOTM * 1st minute: 7 OHS [85#] * 2nd minute: 45 second plank * 3rd minute: 7 kipping chest to bar pullups

CrossFit 2014-08-27

Black and Blue 5 rounds * 10 power cleans [65#] * 10 burpees Time 9:11

The Long View: Werwolf!

Werwolf wasn't the only partisan organization organized in post-WWII Germany. However, Werwolf was probably the best known. Here, John imagines what might have been if the remaining Nazis in 1945 hadn't been too otherwordly to be effective. Werwolf! The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement,

The Long View 2002-04-03: The Necessary Man

As it turns out, we now have an excellent idea of just what evils were occasioned by deposing tyrants in the Middle East. However, John was correct in pointing out that the Ottomans were less likely to bribe their problems to go annoy their neighbors. Twelve years on, I'