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As our two neighborhood docs have said, there really isn't a medically justifiable reason to circumcise a newborn. It's an aesthetic issue. So let's put the procedure in the correct category: it's a cosmetic surgery. Me: Like most boys born in England at the time, circumcised. Wish I wasn't.

Politics as usual . . . Pay to Play.

I haven't tried it, but John Basedow's Fitness Made Simple series has a couple videos that emphasize the use of a very limited set of free weights, especially dumbbells. A couple people in the fitness trainer program at the community college have seen them, and thought they were really pretty good.

Moving in the right direction again! :-) May-28-08: At 168.5 lbs, BMI of 25.6 May-21-08: At 170.0 lbs, BMI of 25.8 May-07-08: At 171.5 lbs, BMI of 26.1, Hips/Waist: 36-3/4"/34-1/2" (94%) Apr-02-08: At 171.5 lbs, BMI of 26.1 Mar-12-08: At 169.5 lbs, BMI of 25.8 Mar-05-08: At 170.0 lbs, BMI of...

I seem to be maintaining . . . not loosing or gaining. But as the weather improves here I'll get out on my bike and out hiking a lot more, and that'll help. May-21-08: At 170.0 lbs, BMI of 25.8 May-07-08: At 171.5 lbs, BMI of 26.1, Hips/Waist: 36-3/4"/34-1/2" (94%) Apr-02-08: At 171.5 lbs, BMI...

"One measure of a truly free society is the vigor with which it protects the liberties of its individual citizens. As technology has advanced in America, it has increasingly encroached on one of those liberties--what I term the right of personal privacy. Modern information systems, data banks...

Oops! That should have read CRX (A 2-place Honda Civic variant, not an SUV.)

Hybrid or something else . . . Replacing one of our two well-maintained and good-condition cars with a hybrid doesn't make economic, environmental, or even political sense right now. On the economic front, it just doesn't make sense to trade in a working vehicle on one that gets better gas...

I haven't been on ER for a while, but thought I'd update my Wednesday weigh ins. I wouldn't want you to think I'd given up! Life is keeping me very busy, so instead of working out five times a week, I'm working out just once or twice on top of my generally pretty active lifestyle. That's...

Apr-02-08: At 171.5 lbs, BMI of 26.1 Mar-12-08: At 169.5 lbs, BMI of 25.8 Mar-05-08: At 170.0 lbs, BMI of 25.8 Feb-27-08: At 170.5 lbs, BMI of 25.9 Feb-20-08: At 170.5 lbs, BMI of 25.9, Hips/Waist: 36-3/4"/34-1/4" (93%) Feb-13-08: At 172.0 lbs, BMI of 26.1 Feb-06-08: At 174.0 lbs, BMI of 26.5 :(...

Not as exposed. I can cruise my neighborhood and locate a dozen WiFi networks in ten minutes or less. Homeplug networks don't broadcast their presence and data thieves generally have softer targets they can tap into, and you can crack most "secured" wireless LANs using hacker tools like...

OK, so the Australian Institute of Public Affairs -- a conservative organization favoring free trade and relaxed regulation -- finds a scientist to present a paper. Isn't it amazing that the presentation was overwhelmingly anti-regulation and pro-free-trade? Like, gosh, I always go to a...

Of course we know nothing. If the Bush administration has its way, we'll stay ignorant, even if we have the right to know. The Bush admin. is fighting to keep documents that discuss the run up to war out of the archives, and claims to have irreparably deleted emails that should have been saved...

Thank you brave solders. Thank you defenders on the sea and in the air. And thank you to those who are called to be "One of the few, the Proud . . ." Thank you and I hope with all my heart that your next commander-in-chief will restore the qualities of integrity, honesty, and rational thought...

Though he wrote many wonderful books, I will always remember him by a favorite from my early teen years, Childhood's End. It is a tribute to the man that he wrote many books that will grace many bookshelves for generations after we have joined him beyond the veil.

Perhaps I was unclear about what I meant by "strategic." My idea of "strategic" is "economically strategic," not "militarily strategic." Fifty years from now there may be very little easily accessed crude oil left to drill up. Hydrocarbon feedstock is vital to the manufacture of many products...

Sorry kids. We used the last of the ANWR reserve so we could continue to drive our SUVs. By the way, could you please call your state representative and tell him to vote YES on the heating oil subsidies for seniors bill? 'Nuff said?

Another vote for Picassa.

Er, drive cars that get as good a gas mileage as the cars they drive in Europe? Take public transit more often? If we tap our resources in the short term and while failing to do these things that's exactly what those resources will be: short term resources.

Absolutely. Seven or eight months of the year Portland is an amazing place to live if you love riding your bike. (The other few months it rains or gets freezing cold.) There are many hundreds of miles of bike trails, bike routes, and from downtown Portland you can bike to the coast in a day, up...

I'm against drilling in ANWR, but not for the reasons you might expect. I want to keep it as a strategic reserve, a source for precious hydrocarbon resources fifty years from now when the Saudi wells run dry.

This brings two things to mind. The first is why I enjoy working out at the community college here in town, the one with the fitness trainer's program. We swap tips, training techniques and critiques of each other's form at the college gym. It's a handy thing to be reminded that you need to...

Ahhh, a man who believes that life should be bitters to the end! :coolsmiley: That was really great, NewGuy

NewGuy, that works for some people, but jogging isn't something my knees do well anymore. One alternative to jogging that I do enjoy is bicycling, which gives me the opportunity to explore parts of the county I wouldn't otherwise ever see. Riding a bike doesn't do damage to my knees like running...