Some time ago, I was having a discussion about diet with one of the many vegetarian graduate students in the philosophy department. He is a vegetarian on utilitarian grounds--more specifically, he believes (1) that an omnivorous diet brings more suffering into the world than a vegetarian one, (2) that the pleasure to be gained from eating animals ( Read more... )

Despite the fact that America is terribly unhealthy, one has to bear in mind that there has never before now been a time when it was possible to be healthier. Yes, the culture and the government make it difficult to find information about the proper way to work out or about proper nutrition. I have in mind here, for example, those mandated tables ( Read more... )

The following is an excerpt from my personal journal for January 1. I post it not so much for the information about my life as for the illustration of my method of thinking ( Read more... )

I'm going to try to post more often in the new year. There might not always be much. I'll probably give weekly highlights out of my private journal when they are suitable for public consumption. Today, I have a picture. I've been doing crossfit workouts regularly for about a year now and I've never been in better shape. So a big thank you to all of ( Read more... )

Although I wasn't quite able to keep my resolution of working out five days a week through the whole year, I approximated that goal much more closely than would have been likely had I not made the resolution. Therefore, now is a good time to reaffirm some committments and to establish some new ones ( Read more... )