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The Long View 2009-01-01: Count Your Blessings

It might not be obvious, thirteen years later, but this was John J. Reilly’s deadpan satire of how 2009 could have been worse. Count Your Blessings For many people, the television images this morning of the continuing sack of the Green Zone brought a sense of closure, if not

Drizzt and Hobbes

Conan

Who you gonna call?

Linkfest 2022-05-20: The La Sierra System

Art of Manliness: The Insanely difficult standards of history’s hardest PE program A fascinating read on the La Sierra System, an ultra-competitive PE program that produced the kind of fitness you find in elite operators. I don’t think you could just duplicate this everywhere and get the same

Safety

From friend of the blog CW.’s Daily Timewaster

Technological Progress and Innovation in early Twentieth Century America

I’ve said a few times that the 1930s were the peak of technological innovation in the United States. I think any serious look at the history of science and technology will make this clear. But, you can also come at this from another angle. I always find it valuable