Archive for August 2012
Problem: School Lunches Are Complete Crap; Solution: Let’s Starve The Kids
Prepare for outrage, because that’s the unabashed reason behind this “guest post.” Actually, it’s a hybrid, because I’ll be adding plenty of follow up after her part of it. Sadie sue Saunders is a longtime reader, longtime supporter, and was actually the subject of a couple of other blog posts—one of which was included in...…Read More
Free the Animal, The Book, Now in Version 2.0
It’s finally done and finally out. It’s a bit strange that this was a seemingly longer, more worky work project for me than the first version was. I took a lot of time to go through it word by word, with one primary goal in mind: to get rid of a kinda low-carb bias...…Read More
Fifty Shades of bleak: Looking for love everywhere it isn’t.
Today’s post is a guest post about men, women, sex, even more sex, and orgasms. Greg Swann has been around here a few times and most recently, featured weekly, chapter-by-chapter for his book Man Alive! Last week, Greg and I presented back-to-back at The 21 Convention. Given what so many presume and assume that convention to...…Read More
Sunday Morning Notes: Podcast Interview, Workouts and Vitamin D
~ I had a good time with relatively new Paleo blogger Brooks Rembert yesterday. Wasn’t sure if he wanted video or not, so I set up a table and computer in the grass in the backyard and had a great time. This is not a particularly work safe podcast, but all vitriol is reserved for...…Read More
The Definitive Guide to Melissa McEwen’s “Paleo Drama”
“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.” — Abraham H. Maslow [For an update, please see: Lemons to Lemonade Documentary – Ed] I had a couple of posts in draft to further delve into two aspects of what has come up recently in the latest series...…Read More
My Response Regarding The Critics
Edited from a comment posted on an unrelated thread after saying I had no comment and being admonished to comment anyway. ~~~ EatLessMoveMoore: OK, I’ll throw you a bone in general—even though I suspect you’re just trying to (nicely and respectfully) bait and goad me into doing what both of those women might dearly love, and...…Read More
Dr. Doug McGuff’s The 21 Convention Presentation in 2 Words: You’re Fucked
Update 10/25/2012: Doug’s entire presentation, the subject and content for this post, is now online at YouTube: …Well, you can quibble and call it three words since it’s a contraction, but you’ll get the point either way. Two years ago, Doug presented at The 21 Convention along with Mark Sisson. Word is, his presentation has...…Read More
My Butt Hurts So Bad
Skyler Tanner is, to me, just like one of my brothers in many respects. That is, when together, there is pretty much never a moment of silence and each has a backlog of shit to talk about—more than half forgotten by the time either can get a word in. …Oh, and while in Austin, my...…Read More
Misogyny 101
[For an update, please see: Lemons to Lemonade Documentary – Ed] Watch this disgusting video of a bunch of men laughing it up about breast and vaginal mutilation. ….Oh, wait! [For an update, please see: Lemons to Lemonade Documentary – Ed]... This content is for Annual Subscription, Monthly Subscription, and Free Member Content members only…Read More
The 21 Convention, Austin, TX, 2012
Tomorrow evening when I fly home it’ll be a day or two shy of three full weeks since I began traveling. On August 1st I left for for a 5-day hang gliding trip to Hat Creek which, for the first time since the beginning about 15 years ago, Beatrice could not attend. Upon my return...…Read More
AHS12 Whining and Gnashing of Teeth
Update 8/14/2013: Well, one day short of a year since I originally published this. And wowzers did I catch a lot of heat for it. Someone even started a blog specifically to trash me about my “misogyny,” laf. Man, those were the days. I just read through it again for the first time since the couple...…Read More
The Ancestral Health Symposium 2012, Harvard Law School, Wrap-Up
It’s easier to criticize the good than it is the bad—because the bad ought to be obvious enough, needing not much elaboration. And as easy as it is to criticize the good, It takes surprisingly little additional effort to praise it instead, to encourage it, to promote its continuous improvement process (thanks my old friend, Bud...…Read More
Livebloging #AHS12 When I Feel Like it
It’s 1:30 am. Ran into to Sisson earlier, on purpose, as he was checking in about an hour after I did. Yan, a longtime reader and geek from Denmark (he was at #AHS11), bought me too many drinks and then I bought him dinner. I had about a dozen raw oysters and steak tartare. All...…Read More
#AHS12 Arriving
I’m on the way. Actually, just about an hour only out of Boston. 39,000 feet, though. Earlier, at 37,000 feet, I met someone who knows my blog. She’s 2 rows ahead of me and emailed when she saw me on my computer. Cool. Virgin America VX350, San Francisco to Boston. First time on Virgin, and...…Read More
Hang Gliding The Hat Creek Rim August 2012, Day 2 and Flying Video
Great flying day yesterday. Overcast and hence, light—perfect conditions for buzzing launch a bit. Very smooth. This was a fun video to toss together this morning, from 4 different cameras. There’s a bit during the drive up to launch from the iPhone, then the launch from my dad’s video camera, the landing from my video...…Read More
Man Alive! Chapter 10: A Mindful Catalog of Mindlessness
Here’s the post that kicked it all off. This is chapter 10 of 12, to give interested readers the chance to take on the free ebook chapter by chapter over the weekend, debate it amongst themselves, or even challenge the author who’s keeping tabs. ~~~ From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind....…Read More
Hang Gliding the Hat Creek Rim August 2012, Day 1
Headed up to the rim around 5pm, intending for a 6:30ish launch in the glass off (smooth rising air everywhere). Lo & behold, there sits Dave with his tandem wing, whom I’d not seen in a few years. That’s one cool thing about hang gliding: you’ll randomly run into people on mountain tops you haven’t...…Read More
Travel, Fun & Lifestyle Update
Headed out Wednesday shortly before noon for the 5-6 hour dive. Destination Hat Creek, CA for camping and hang gliding View Larger Map Wednesday evening was a simpler affair for dinner than is often the case for the 15 years my family and I have been camping here each August. You can click on images...…Read More