Archive for 2011
April 13, 2011
CLASSIC time-management advice.
TRY LOOKING IN SOME AFSCME OFFICIAL’S TRUNK: Can Kloppenburg Find 7,305 Votes In Milwaukee Today?
DANIEL DUANE: Everything You Know About Fitness Is A Lie. I think he’s way too hard on alternate workouts — I haven’t done CrossFit, but I know people who have benefited a lot. And the stability-ball stuff has done wonders for my computer-related maladies. But there’s also something to be said for the back-to-basics routine he champions, and I’m a big fan of the Rippetoe books, which I’ve mentioned here before. But I think CrossFit is even based on those. So Duane’s overselling his thesis a bit.
Check out this book from Rippetoe, too.
UPDATE: An email from Brian Mulvaney at Crossfit:
Wanted to pass along regards from Greg Glasman the founder and CEO of CrossFit, Inc. We are very big Instapundit fans here.
Greg would like to relay that CrossFit is in no way preceded by any of Rippetoe’s work. Further, “We are fundamentally at odds with Rippetoe on critical points of method and charter. We replaced him with Louie Simmons, the dominant authority of his field.”
I stand corrected.
ANOTHER UPDATE: And an email from Rippetoe himself:
Big fan here as well. It is absolutely true that CrossFit preceded my work, and that I was not aware of CrossFit until after my book had been published. It is also true that I am fundamentally at odds with CrossFit on critical points of method and charter (whatever “charter” is), and that was one of the reasons I discontinued my association with them. But they replaced me with Louie Simmons, whom I greatly respect, AFTER my decision to leave. I feel it is important to note the correct timeline here, since the implication that they terminated me is false.
Who knew that all these people read InstaPundit?
TRANSPARENCY: When Facts Are Not Enough.
JENNIFER RUBIN: Why Is Obama Talking To Us Today?
I’ll bet it’s not to announce my proposed 50% surtax on post-government incomes of government officials.
AUSTIN BAY: Into The Fourth Era Of Space Exploration.
BRIAN DOHERTY: Obama’s Gun Guru: A Profile of An Uncooperative, Ineffectual Policy Non-Entity. And I’m happy with him being that way.
TODAY ONLY: Panasonic Wet/Dry Razor for $89. Ah, remember the great razorblogging debate? Did anyone ever go out and buy a straight razor?
OLD ENOUGH TO FIGHT, OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK? In today’s Wall Street Journal, I argue for scrapping the federal mandate requiring a 21-year-old drinking age.
UPDATE: From the comments to this post: “We ought not to be surprised that we’ve cultivated a couple of generations of people whose adolescence has extended into their mid-twenties, when we tell them clearly that we think they’re irresponsible, unaccountable and that we regard them as children until they’re 21.”
ADAM SERWER AND ELI LAKE ON BLOGGINGHEADS TV: Was The “Progressive Movement” A Mirage? Pretty much, judging from Obama’s actions since he got elected. Or, for that matter, from what’s happening to the Huffington Post. . . . Hey, rube! Can you say “bait and switch?”
LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE WRITING ABOUT THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CIVIL WAR, but I don’t really have anything new to say beyond what I said in this post. Sorry. Who am I, Shelby Foote?
POLITICO: Obama Should Fear A Primary Challenge. What, just because he’s kept Gitmo, stepped up drone attacks, gone ahead with military commissions, and found a new Arab country to bomb? Who would want to run against him just because of that? “Howard Dean might. He ran a disastrous campaign in 2004, but he has learned a thing or two since then and has been a critic of Obama’s policies in the past. And Dean hoped for, but did not get, a Cabinet post from Obama, increasing Dean’s irritation. . . . And then there is Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich. He is an unabashed, unashamed, unassimilated liberal. He voted against funding the war in Iraq, believes in the abolition of nuclear weapons and is for single-payer health care, withdrawal from the World Trade Organization and NAFTA, repeal of the PATRIOT Act, abolition of the death penalty, legalizing same-sex marriage and medical marijuana and the creation of a Department of Peace.”
REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.
FEAR AND LOATHING AT THE NEW YORK TIMES: “We’ve got Thomas Friedman all wrong. He’s no button-down pundit trying to explain the outside world — he’s a gonzo madman who downs unlabeled pills & describes his hallucinations. Or at least that’s one way to explain this lede.”
JIM TREACHER: Charlie Crist Grovels To . . . David Byrne? Grovel-video at the link. But Treacher catches Byrne out, too. Don’t mess with the Treach.
DICK DURBIN: Now seems like a good time for an Internet tax.
SO IS THIS THE HOPE, OR THE CHANGE? US deficit up 15.7% in first half of fiscal 2011.
U.S. LACKS CREDIBILITY ON DEBT, says IMF.
WELL, IT’S A GOOD THING WE CHANGED MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS, THEN: Inflation Actually Near 10% Using Older Measure. “Inflation, using the reporting methodologies in place before 1980, hit an annual rate of 9.6 percent in February, according to the Shadow Government Statistics newsletter.” Because if we were using that old system, inflation would be really bad. Thanks, measurement-system-changers!