The stuff in Puerto Rico just looks bad. I've got a colleague down there and have some friends who've got family back there. The American history of exploiting and neglecting the island really exacerbates it. We've been extracting a pound of flesh from them for years, forcing their government into austerity. The center cannot hold.

Hugh Hefner's personal life was awful - he was a pimp and probable rapist. As for his public work, some people have tried to paint him as a feminist because he wasn't a Victorian, but, voila: http://pictorial.jezebel.com/up-against-the-centerfold-what-it-was-like-to-report-o-1762716355 Conservative pricks at the federalist know the score on this one: http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/28/hugh-hefners-legacy-is-about-more-than-sex/ An execrable article that nonetheless correctly notes Hefner's complementarianism.

This is good: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2017/06/27/a-little-more-nuance/ Against nuance, and has some additional data.

My right elbow has been annoying me - I think I mentioned this before, but when pressing sometimes it feels like my triceps are going to tear off my olecranon or something. Not sure if it's tendonitis or if the tendon is slipping over the bone (both are possible). And then the other day I tweaked my neck while pressing (either testing or rehabbing - turns out that if I'm careful about how I move my arm it works. But with the tweaked neck (which seems to be recovering) I can't really do any lifting. This comes after having some other gaps in lifting because of other tweaks. But I can run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd5LCN53q9Y

Actually, no, I don't feel that, running just kind of sucks, except it gets kind of meditative or I can listen to the news or a podcast if I'm running on the pavement instead of the road. My resting pulse is in the 50s now.

I'm solidly below 100kg at the moment. It turns out if you're able to run a couple hours per week, lift weights a couple hours per week, and eat a lot less food, pounds just fly off.

inspirobot.me gives me life these days. Here's my favorite recent one: http://generated.inspirobot.me/068/aXm8377xjU.jpg

I don't remember if I got this from you guys or not, but it's completely right about everything. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-unquestioned-goodness-of-school-uniforms

Speaking of horrible things the US has done to people: https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/people/5-odd-facts-about-the-difficult-tortured-history-of-virginia-indians/

My state: more republicans being fuckheads. http://www.bleedingheartland.com/2017/09/28/lawsuit-over-iowa-senate-republican-harassment-will-be-settled/