Chocolate Milk and Exercise

It looks like I should have followed Father’s urging to make chocolate milk a regular part of my diet. According to this health reporter, it is practically a miracle drink:

Imagine if everything you needed to know about weight loss, you learned in kindergarten. Well, if your teacher gave you chocolate milk as a lunchtime treat, she was (unknowingly) giving you one of the most powerful weight-loss tools in the nutritional universe. Turns out this childhood staple may be the ideal vehicle for your body’s most neglected nutritional needs. Each bottle delivers a package of micro- and macronutrients that can help you shake off body flab and replace it with firm muscle. And when you served it ice-cold, the creamy sweetness flows across your tongue with all the pleasure of a milk shake. Yum.

Curiously, this reporter also says something about “exercise”. Exercise? The word vaguely resonates in my memory, but I cannot quite pigeonhole it.

So, I googled it. I think I remember this from my childhood days in school, in gym class.

Are adults suppose to do this? I thought adults got their exercise through sex, and I know that I have been meaning to get a workout partner for my bed. Being without one all these years has not done much for my manly figure. As for this kiddy exercise, I think I am too old for this, this… rope-skipping and running about and what have you. If only reading books could burn off the calories, then I would have no need for love.

Chocolate Milk and Exercise

It looks like I should have followed Father’s urging to make chocolate milk a regular part of my diet. According to this health reporter, it is practically a miracle drink:

Imagine if everything you needed to know about weight loss, you learned in kindergarten. Well, if your teacher gave you chocolate milk as a lunchtime treat, she was (unknowingly) giving you one of the most powerful weight-loss tools in the nutritional universe. Turns out this childhood staple may be the ideal vehicle for your body’s most neglected nutritional needs. Each bottle delivers a package of micro- and macronutrients that can help you shake off body flab and replace it with firm muscle. And when you served it ice-cold, the creamy sweetness flows across your tongue with all the pleasure of a milk shake. Yum.

Curiously, this reporter also says something about “exercise”. Exercise? The word vaguely resonates in my memory, but I cannot quite pigeonhole it.

So, I googled it. I think I remember this from my childhood days in school, in gym class.

Are adults suppose to do this? I thought adults got their exercise through sex, and I know that I have been meaning to get a workout partner for my bed. Being without one all these years has not done much for my manly figure. As for this kiddy exercise, I think I am too old for this, this… rope-skipping and running about and what have you. If only reading books could burn off the calories, then I would have no need for love.

Papal Fallibility

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way, against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ... There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

-- Lord Acton

Since undergraduate school, I have been a frequent quoter of that Lord Acton maxim that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is the first time that I have seen the context in which that maxim was born. I am very impressed with it.

That link leads to the article in which Acton is quoted. It is Garry Wills's learned and inspiring essay going over the sex scandal of the Catholic Church, going over the mishistorical grounding of the papacy, with its disastrous insistence on celibacy and the barring of women from the priesthood, and its errant regressiveness on other matters, highlighting the principle that the people of God are the Church, not the pope.

( A Catholic's struggle with the sins of his church )

Papal Fallibility

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way, against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ... There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

-- Lord Acton

Since undergraduate school, I have been a frequent quoter of that Lord Acton maxim that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is the first time that I have seen the context in which that maxim was born. I am very impressed with it.

That link leads to the article in which Acton is quoted. It is Garry Wills's learned and inspiring essay going over the sex scandal of the Catholic Church, going over the mishistorical grounding of the papacy, with its disastrous insistence on celibacy and the barring of women from the priesthood, and its errant regressiveness on other matters, highlighting the principle that the people of God are the Church, not the pope.

( A Catholic's struggle with the sins of his church )