Prosthetic Conscience

Links for 2007-11-21 Wed

• Dennis Kucinich on Overcompensating
  

  The webcomic Overcompensating joins Dennis Kucinich for a look at the American voter.

• Awesome rant on the Democratic debates
  

  “pinche tejano” gives an awesome rant on the Democratic debates and the candidates. I was especially impressed by his digression on the badassitude of Mike Gravel.

• Invade Pakistan?
  

  Justin Raimondo writes about how the foreign policy elite are pushing for intervention in Pakistan to support the Musharraf government. Apparently the claim is that the collapse of the military dictatorship will allow al-Qaida/Taliban supporters to seize control of the government and its nuclear weapons. This ignores, of course, the fact that the dictatorship is tottering because of the (majority) democratic opposition party, not the (tiny minority) religious parties, which are more closely aligned with the dictatorship.

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Second really good DE shave

Today I got my second really good shave with my double-edged razor. Baby’s Butt Smooth with absolutely no irritation. Surprisingly, it was with a Dorco blade that yesterday (when it was new), I thought was simply too dull, because it pulled rather than cut when I was starting with it.

Factors that came together for a better shave today:

1. More prep. I had time to soak in the bath this morning, and to condition my beard with hair conditioner.
2. Changed passes. I added an XTG pass back in before my ATG pass, because I decided that I was trying the ATG pass before enough stubble had been removed.
3. Blade angle. After looking at this thread and this thread on Badger and Blade, I decided that dialing down on my Fat Boy was not the way to go, and that to improve my technique in terms of blade angle, I would be better served by using only a low setting on my razor, for all passes. I used setting 2 for all four passes, and setting 1 for final clean-up. I would have used 1, but I think the razor has been dropped and slightly bent, so that the two ends of the razor do not maintain the same gap between the guide and the blade, and because of this, 2 is closer to the ideal described in the thread above.

I hope in time that this will become repeatable.

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