CrossFit 2014-08-01
Escape from Wonderland
3 rounds
* 150 single unders
* 50 air squats
* 25 Calorie row
Time 17:31
Latest
CrossFit 2014-07-28
Ham Sandwich
* 50 wallballs
* 25 deadlifts [155#]
* 50 wallballs
* EMOTM 5 burpees
Time 20:00 [capped] 112 reps
The Long View 2002-03-07: Some Nuclear Fiction
This is another early blog post that impressed me. John had very acute judgement about things such as the military potential of dirty bombs. The whole point of asymmetric warfare is that you don't have to so much as kill or even truly frighten an enemy you can
The Long View: The Twilight of Democracy
Unlike the secretive NSA, sometimes it seems that everyone who retires from the CIA gets a book deal along with their pension. This book review is now nineteen years old, but it seems pertinent to understanding how the Deep State works. The Deep State might seem like a re-tread of
The Long View: Tragedy and Hope
The Magistra likes to watch period dramas on Netflix. This is a work of the same genre, although Quigley probably didn't know he was writing one at the time. This book is a fossil from that brief and peaceful period in the 1960s before the big cultural upheavals
CrossFit 2014-07-23
Hurricane
3 rounds
* 800m run
* 21 power cleans [95#]
Time 26:19
The Long View: The Future of the Papacy
I see that Richard McBrien has an updated version of The Lives of the Popes. [Amazon link] John's essay isn't really a review of McBrien's book, it is more along the lines of an attempt to set the record straight. This essay would be