Monthly Archives: September 2016
The first debate of the 2016 Presidential race promises to be a spectacular competition for American hearts and minds. If for a moment we attempt to filter out the marketing messages, hyperbole and the worldview differences between the Presidential candidates and look at leadership style, there is still a vast and illuminating difference between the candidates. The Wonk On the one side we have Clinton, long an analyst steeped in data for every decision. In the age of big data,…..
Two weeks ago my post was about initial training in an attempt to return to fitness after having become unfit. However that is not really the beginning of this journey. The beginning was the end of the tyranny of a chronic injury. It started with a injection to relieve the pain of a pinched nerve I’d been struggling with for years without knowing its cause. Prior to that I felt like I was on a diving board of unyielding rock,…..
If you saw the smoke, if you knew people who were killed, or knew people who helped respond and paid with their health or their life — or are one of those people, or if you knew people who were just nearby and in harm’s way for a time, then 9/11 it feels personal. So many people own this tragedy in New York and New Jersey and Washington DC and Boston — that it feels collectively like it belongs to all of us. We…..
Getting back in shape is a long project if you were very fit once and not at all fit now. Here are the steps I’ve used so far. Set a challenging goal. Mine is the Dirty Kanza in June 2017. The definition of challenging is that you are afraid that if you do not train right you will end up somewhere you really don’t want to be as a result of not meeting that goal — like stuck in the hot sun…..
So small French towns have decided that women’s modest swimwear is the equivalent to the black arm bands students got in trouble for wearing to protest the Viet Nam war. If they were, being from the USA freedom of speech, I would expect their protest to be respected. But they are not even protesting, or weren’t at the start. These women don’t seem to be protesting or supporting anything except their convictions that God would want them to be modest…..