Who would Martin Luther King support for president today?
I ask who among our current-day political leaders Martin Luther King might support; the more appropriate question is who among them would have the courage to embrace a living King as eagerly as they drape themselves in the dead one’s memory. I’m drawing a blank.
Much of the commentary on the anniversary of King’s assassination focuses upon the direction he took in the last years of his life, speaking out against the Vietnam war specifically and state-sponsored violence in general, and attempting to broaden the movement that coalesced around him to include economically oppressed people of every color, not just the racially oppressed ones for whom he advocated so powerfully. He wanted to recast the political and social values of the country to the benefit not just of the disenfranchised here, but for those abroad who suffered from our own and similar military and corporate depredations.
Among the leading presidential contenders, only John Edwards brought even a fraction of King’s outrage and conscience to bear on the economic inequalities that continue to plague and, in many ways, cripple the US. None of the candidates show any sign of feeling the grief and rage King would have felt at what we have done and continue doing to the people of Iraq: hundreds of thousands dead, millions displaced, millions more robbed of fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers, many millions more robbed of their livelihood, their security and any semblance of a normal life.
Can anyone imagine Martin Luther King failing to address the debt we’ve incurred to the Iraqis? or failing to note the uses to which the hundreds of billions of US dollars and tens of thousands of US lives thrown away on the occupation could have been put? or failing to speak out in the strongest possible terms against US policies of kidnapping, torture and perpetual detention beyond the rule of law?
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How is this targeted to Geeks? These are all basic points that anyone should know. Putting the work ‘Geeks’ in the title makes it more interesting to digg users? Wow
Take his advice about the Creatine. It does work a lot. I take about 15 g every workout along with about 80 g of whey protein. Works ***** wonders if you’re looking to build muscle and strength.One thing I don’t agree with him on is the situps part. He’s saying you should basically do cardio situp sets which take forever and are tiring at times. My advice is to use a weight-aided abs machine such as an ab cruncher. I crunch about 150 lbs with my abs in reps of 10 and it works wonders. Can boil eggs on these things.
I’m willing to bet geeks generally know a lot more about working out than most people think. I for one can’t catch, hit or throw a ball to save my life, which is exactly why I go to a gym.
I’ll throw my hat in on the DDR front. DDR is fun, has good music and is an EXCELLENT work out from the very start.
Too bad he didn’t do a good job at responsibly managing his money.Honestly, do you really think it hurts the people you stiffed to torment a low-wage worker who has to put up with people screaming at them all day?
Weird…on the home page there’s a link to the fractal cabbage which is on John Walker’s website, who (I’m getting somewhere here), wrote the Hacker’s Diet.http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
I do aikido 3 times a week. Beating up people is much more fun than going to a boring gym and working with boring weights.
Just get yourself a jump rope. Stretch a little, warm up and begin jumping. Or if you prefer, warm up a little then stretch then begin jumping.Jumping rope is at least as good as running in regards to burning calories. It’s also incredibly simple and quick to do. Additionally, skipping also builds leg muscles, helps slightly to tone your abs, and is a great way to build stamina.Lastly, jump ropes are inexpensive. I bought a weighted rope for less than $8.It’s not the end all be all, of course, but for us nerds it’s an easy & quick way to lose weight, tone a bit, increase day to day energy and it’s easily maintained from day to day.
The man is a fool. More than one of his suggestions can be downright dangerous. It might be an idea if he actually looked into the physics of working out before he tries to give other people advice.No digg for this idiot.
Here is where I see a flaw in the plan: This “geek” claims to work out with a mythical creature called a “girlfriend”.Seriously, Nerds understand the basics, we just choose to ignore them.