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The shoebox was wet and I discovered a leaking witch hazel; I had to rinse and dry a few bottles and took the opportunity to snap a picture.
Comments: My go-to, can't-live-without products would be Proraso shaving cream, Thayer's Medicated Superhazel, Vifrex gel, and Anherb After Shave Conditioner. My go-to blades are pictured: Gillette 7 O'Clock green or yellow box. I can tolerate other blades, such as Lord Classic, Bolzano Super Inox, Dorco, Feather, and Big Ben, but I always go back to these Gillettes.
I bought the Floid's Sandolor pre-shave gel when I first started traditional wet-shaving and hadn't yet mastered the lathering. I am using it now just to get rid of it, but I wouldn't spend money on it again.
The most pleasant surprise so far has been the Acqua di Selva after shave (green bottle). I wasn't sure I liked the scent when I first smelled it and it sat in a drawer for probably a year. I bought it because it was a favorite of one of the shaving gurus. Then I made a decision that I would either have to use it or sell it on eBay, so I gave it a shot.
Selva means forest, and it definitely has a forest-y scent. I assumed it would be like rubbing pine on raw skin and just irritate the heck out of my face, but this after shave is really soothing. I am definitely going to be using it more this winter.
The biggest disappointment so far has been the Cella shave soap. I was looking for the purest soap (no modern chemicals) and Cella seemed to fit the bill, but I can't build a long-lasting lather with it and it both dries out and irritates my skin! I have similar problems with a Valobra soap shave stick (not pictured), but the skin irritation is not nearly as pronounced.
Random stuff:
Wackerman just kicks my ass. Alan will be in Cleveland and Dayton in October, tix are only $20 if anyone's interested...
Ask someone alive during the war what it was like. Was the British economy thriving? Or the German economy? Or the American? No. Economic life was miserable despite the measured growth in the economy. Economic life in wartime is miserable because so much of the economy was devoted to building those tanks and bombs. There weren’t enough resources to create very much private consumption. So the measured economy boomed because it included all that military production.
And yes, unemployment was close to zero. That’s because the government used conscription to put people in the military. It’s easy to get rid of unemployment that way. But it didn’t create economic health. The opposite was true. Times were miserable.
Robert Higgs explained why the measured size of the economy can be booming but there wasn’t much meat and there weren’t many stockings and not much sugar. What kind of boom is that? It’s a deceptive boom. A boom that fits in with the Keynesian story. But it’s very misleading.
After the war ended, the Keyensians predicted economic collapse. They were wrong. They assumed the great reduction in aggregate demand would cause mass unemployment as government spending on the military fell. They were wrong.
Krugman believes that deficit spending during Word War II "laid the foundation for long-run prosperity." Here, Roberts succinctly destroys the myth that war stimulates the economy. You have to look inside the boom numbers at what's going on in real life.
Mead argues that environmentalists have abandoned their traditional role of skeptics and turned into the expert planners the green movement once railed against.
An increasingly skeptical public started to notice that ‘experts’ weren’t angels descending immaculately from heaven bearing infallible revelations from God. They were fallible human beings with mortgages to pay and funds to raise. They disagreed with one another and they colluded with their friends and supporters like everyone else. They often produced research that agreed with the views of those who funded their work (tobacco companies, builders of nuclear power plants, NGOs and foundations).
Bacon prices sizzle. Consumers feel the heat.
Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse.
By default I use the "select all" when opening my inbox and untick the important messages. Everything else gets deleted. I find it helps me maintain my inbox zero. When I've been bad and haven't been emptying my inbox, I use the "select unread" option.
More about why the change: The "Select all" link is used by <1% of users.
