Sure, it may not be run by the moonies, but the Wash Post runs some dubious stuff. “Your toothpaste should have an agenda.”
No, it should work, which Tom’s does. I started using it a couple of years ago on a whim, and found that toothpaste without sweeteners really does taste better, and leaves my mouth without that artificial, sticky aftertaste that regular brands do. Pshaw.
A couple hits from the sidebars of “The 25 Toughest Guys In America” column in this month’s Men’s Journal:
- 10 Wannabe Tough Guys: #5. Bill O’Reilly – Macho debater’s knockout punch: “Shut up!”
- Honorable Mention: #25. Hillary Clinton – Is there anyone who doubts that the toughest penalty Bill paid for the Monica scandal was at home?
He hasn’t been a factor for a couple years, but Marco Pantani has turned up dead in an Italian hotel.
He won the ’98 Tour de France and won the Giro d’Italia a couple of times. But he always had doping allegations surrounding him, and was removed from the ’99 tour (the first one Lance Armstrong won) due to high levels of hemocrit (red blood cells), signs of taking EPO (The entire Festina team was disqualified from the 1998 tour after this and other doping agents were found in their trainer’s car).
He’ll be missed. Pantani was, at one time, a fabulous rider, and proof that there’s hope for small folks in sport. He never missed a chance to mouth off, although for the last couple of years, the jawing never squared with the results. A much better tribute is here
While killing time, I came across an old NRO article by Harry Brown, the 2000 Libertarian nominee for PotUS. In hindsight, there were a couple of warning signs I should have caught (Even though you can’t blame me for GWB, I voted for Nader):
If you really do believe in individual freedom, we invite you to join us, the Libertarians. You won’t have to make excuses for your votes — claiming that you’re “buying time,” or that you’re just being “realistic.” You don’t have to pretend to cheer a president who’s pushing for the opposite of what you want — who’s really just Bill Clinton in drag.You can vote for what you really want and abstain from voting when no choice satisfies you.
Sure, we Libertarians aren’t winning many electoral victories yet. But neither are you — not if you believe in individual liberty, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and small government. It’s no victory to elect a man who wants to increase subsidies to the destructive education system, who wants to enlarge the disastrous government health-care system, who wants to add religious charities to the list of institutions hooked on government aid and control, and who claims that government (an agency of coercion and bureaucracy) can be “compassionate” so long as he is the one running it.
My guess is that I’ll vote for GWB in November, but it’s kind of spooky how Mr. Browne foresaw the ballooning of government under 43.
So, in my endless mucking about with OS’es, which is not nearly so much fun as mucking about in boats, I ran into a quick connundrum.
I swung by the office today to do a little bit of work to get ahead in hours on the chance that Nate decides to arrive this week (looking extremely possible) and I am off to Houston at the end of the week for the blessed event, and decided to download Debian. My connundrum, once I’d pulled the ISO’s was that XP does not support burning CD’s from disk images. The thought hadn’t even crossed my mind since OS X does it transparently. Darn you Redmond!
A little bit of googling and a couple of downloads landed me with CD Burner XP Pro, a bit of freeware from Sweden. Works fine, lasts long time. Easy to use interface, did exactly what I needed with no fuss. Not sure if any of y’all have need of such a product, but if so, check it out.
You can donate w/ paypal if you really like it, but it’s fully functional as freeware.
