A few months ago, at the urging of a friend, I abandoned my bike-riding routine in favor of running. This was a fortuitous decision; I am now in much better shape and stand to make much more improvement still. Over the course of the past several months I have learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to running. Often I ignored conventional
The government loves the opportunity to arrest people. Ever see those guys on the TV show COPS? They think they’re doing us good when they arrest some dude who was going 7mph over the speed limit and just happened to have a small joint of marijuana in the back seat of the car. The City of Denver is getting in on the act now, too. (I wonder if
New York's robotic Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in the news peddling a new government surveillance program which is being introduced in New York City. Honestly, this is ridiculous. And don't give me the speech about safety. The Revolutionary War was not won by making people feel safe. In any case, I would rather be dead than a serf in an inflationary
A few months ago a dear friend bought me Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine . I think he knew that parts of this book would resonate with me, and they do. What the U.S. government and the CIA have done to promote “freedom” is despicable. The problem is that Klein is not doing a very good job of distinguishing and is painting the crusades