Since I began keeping track, on December 11, I’ve run over 53 miles. Not bad for the middle of the holiday season, and coupled with the 4 hours of snowboarding I did on Saturday afternoon, I’ve burned over 7000 calories, which equates to a little over 2lbs of fat loss. …Tonight, my right knee told me that at 216 pounds, 7.5 miles was too far to run. Which is too bad, because I was shooting for an even 8. Better take it easy for a few days. … Read entire article »

Army First Lt. Ehren Watada, facing a court martial for refusing deployment orders to Iraq, via Kevin Sites, Yahoo!: I think that when we take an oath we, as soldiers and officers, swear to protect the constitution — with our lives as necessary — and those constitutional values and laws that make us free and make us a democracy. And when we have one branch of government that intentionally deceives another branch of government in order to authorize war, and intentionally deceives the people in order to gain that public support, that is a grave breach of our constitutional values, our laws, our checks and balances, and separation of power… The constitution was established, and our laws are established, to protect human rights, to protect equal rights and constitutional civil … Read entire article »