This is just a crappy phone picture I took on the spur of the moment with not even great lighting, but this is what my arm looks like after a year of working out. I am flexing in this photo, but did not work out before taking this (so my muscles aren’t filled with blood), and don’t have my arm pressing against my side (which is often used to make muscles look larger):

No before photo, but a year ago you couldn’t really see any muscle, flexed or not. To give some idea of how much work this takes, that’s about 210 hours of work on my arms/upper chest alone to go from no definition and poor strength to that.

Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger repudiates the William Langewiesche New York Times Magazine article blaming pilots for the Boeing 737 Max crashes.

Good. I was going to write about that piece of crap muckraking article myself a week ago but got distracted and never did.

As with many pieces published in the establishment apologist news organization that is the NYT, the Langewiesche piece toes the Boeing line completely and minimizes the role that shoddy design and management negligence and fraud played in two fatal crashes.

Or, as Sully says:

In “What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 MAX?” William Langewiesche draws the conclusion that the pilots are primarily to blame for the fatal crashes of Lion Air 610 and Ethiopian 302. In resurrecting this age-old aviation canard, Langewiesche minimizes the fatal design flaws and certification failures that precipitated those tragedies, and still pose a threat to the flying public.

It’s not so shocking these days that such an instance of journalistic malpractice gets published in a major newspaper, I guess. But it’s still disappointing.