"A lot of people will want to control everything in their children's lives, or everything in other people's children's lives."

Glenn Beck: 'Liberals, You Were Right' About Iraq War: "There are many things you'd never expect Glenn Beck to say: "Barack Obama is a great president," "the Affordable Care Act was a huge success," "amnesty for all undocumented immigrants!" But "liberals, you were right" tops them all. And yet: "From the beginning, most people on the left were against going into Iraq. I wasn’t.... Liberals, you were right. We shouldn’t have." Beck made this surprising declaration on his radio show on Tuesday while discussing the widening rift between Republicans and Democrats. He urged both parties to come together to oppose another war in Iraq. "Not one more life. Not one more life. Not one more dollar, not one more airplane, not one more bullet, not one more Marine, not one more arm or leg or eye. Not one more," he said. "This must end now. Now can't we come together on that?""

I came, I saw, I conquered.: "countrepsnotcalories: It worries me how little people know about nutrition. The media doesn’t care about your health. They care about sales. And yet people base their lives around whatever the media is promoting. You can try every diet in the book but all you will end up with is a screwed up metabolism and more weight then when you started."

Judy Blume: parents shouldn't worry about what their kids are reading - Boing Boing: "Judy Blume -- whose books have been frequently challenged in schools and libraries -- is skeptical of the idea that parents need to be worry about whether the books their kids read are "appropriate". Bloom says that any book a kid is captivated by is, by definition, "appropriate": "[Kids] are very good, I think, at monitoring what makes them feel uncomfortable. If something makes them feel uncomfortable they will put it down."

"A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading," she said. "A lot of people will want to control everything in their children's lives, or everything in other people's children's lives." "If a child picks up a book and reads something she has a question about, if she can go to her parents, great. "Or else they will read right over it. It won't mean a thing. "They are very good, I think, at monitoring what makes them feel uncomfortable. If something makes them feel uncomfortable they will put it down.""

"Can I just upgrade...?"

What Makes Normal People Commit War Crimes? - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society: "Richardot found five distinct formulations of orders, each which provides, to some extent, a psychological cushion for subordinates to justify their actions. Regimes that are legally in power, like the United States military, tend to use ambiguous or partial orders, so authorities can avoid legal problems. Illegal regimes, on the other hand, rely on orders with code words, giving subordinates the illusion of choice, and fragmenting the orders to dispel individual blame...

Most of the time, soldiers who commit atrocities are not sadists or ‘bad apples’…. These soldiers are ‘normal people’ but they have been trained to obey orders with no discussion…. I do not excuse those who perpetuated atrocities. I just mean that, when these people are charged, one has to remember all the strategies authorities use to push them to violence. At the bottom of the military hierarchy, people do not always have all the resources to refuse immoral orders, especially when everything is done to make them think these are legal."

Training - "That which doesn't kill me..."

6/20 - treadmill/wmup, squats, calf press, 

  

"Curing ADHD..."

The Superpower Should Retire - Reason.com: "This afternoon President Barack Obama announced that he is sending "up to 300" troops to Iraq—not for combat, he swears, but merely as "military advisors." (When I was growing up, in the aftermath of Vietnam, "these are just advisors" was a punchline.)"

No, no, no and no.  Easy.  Against Another Pointless War - Reason.com: "Should he send troops back to Iraq to defend the government we installed when we toppled Saddam? Should American lives and tax dollars be spent in another pointless effort to bring democracy to a culture that has persistently rejected it? Should we take sides using our military in what is essentially an ancient religious civil war? Is the national security of the U.S. even remotely affected by the outcome of the current Iraqi civil war?"

 Luxury Osros Floating Island | Beautiful Life: "Designed by an Austrian company the Osros floating island includes six luxury double bedrooms, with space for 12 residents and four staff members. The boat is priced at £3 million. The manufacturers describe the island as an “autonomous power supply based energy system” powered by a noiseless wind energy system. The island also features over 120 m2 of solar panels. Heat recovery from the sea water is used for heating and air conditioning..."

Training - "It comes from overcoming..."

6/19 - chins, dips

  

Stephen Amell, Bad Motherfucker.  Stephen Amell Back In Training For Arrow Season 3 - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors: "A lot of the movies Oliver Queen uses in the series Arrow are based on parkour or freerunning. Stephen Amell trains at Tempest Freerunning to get ready for the rigors of the stunts..."