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Airborne - how many times have I been told about the wonders of this supplement? People have a manic obsession with it because they believe that it will strengthen their immune system and prevent colds. It is often taken before a trip as a stressful time that is sleep deprived is more likely to bring on a cold as your immune systems weaken.

I’ve always hated holistic cures that have no scientific merit. Sure, this stuff has a bunch of vitamin C but so do oranges. We have not found a cure for the cold and we do not know how to prevent it - all that we do know is that if we wear our immune system down through stress/lack of sleep/change of environment we are more likely to catch a cold.

Well - if you thought airborne was the cure - you were wrong. Turns out there was a class action lawsuit because they’ve been selling a PLACEBO. I think its hilarious - and this is just another time where you were wrong.

Ok - now that you’ve regained your composure and have figured out that I’m messing with you its time for some links.

This guy has zero tact but still tells it like it is. In fact, I would almost wager that he is anti-tact. His best article is where he dissects womens clothing options. Brilliant work (warning: just a bit profane)

This website gives determines your personality based upon the photos you choose. Based on my selections, I have been dubbed a “go getter”

Throughout the years many people have sported a lip caterpillar - I’ve collected a few photos of some of notable stache bearers - enjoi!

Though deceased, this crooner spotted a wicked entertainer stache sure to help swoon the ladies

Will Ferrell threw back to the 70’s with this stache he sported in the movie Anchorman - what a beautiful thing

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Tags: gallery, images, March Mustache Madness, mustache

I’ve survived a quarter century and so far it hasn’t been all that bad despite what I might have to say about it. So, here’s to me and another quarter in the future.

There is nothing quite like giving yourself kudos

Sometimes I find something that nails a point home far better than I could because I normally resort to rampant profanity while talking about destroying things. Others, analyze the problem at hand a provide a variety of viewpoints. Check out this news snippet originally found here. The original paper was from 1989 but it still holds true today.

To become sophisticated citizens, Americans would need high-quality, independent journalism; but news organizations, to stay in business while producing such journalism, would need an audience of sophisticated citizens…. Because most members of the public know and care relatively little about government, they neither seek nor understand high-quality political reporting and analysis. With limited demand for first-rate journalism, most news organizations cannot afford to supply it, and because they do not supply it, most Americans have no practical source of the information necessary to become politically sophisticated. Yet it would take an informed and interested citizenry to create enough demand to support top-flight journalism. The nature of both demand and supply cements interdependence and diminishes the press’s autonomy. On the demand side, news organizations have to respond to public tastes. They cannot stay in business if they produce a diverse assortment of richly textured ideas and information that nobody sees. To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands.”

Source: Democracy Without Citizens: Media and the Decay of American Politics
(New York: Oxford University Press) 1989 by Robert M. Entman

Dropped the parents off this morning and haven’t done much since. I have gone to the gym and shaved but thats really about it. I’ve got most of the photos up and ready to go… still have to add captions and add links to the large images which is going to take some time.

edit: Photos should be done. Have vicariously fun through my photos because you weren’t there!

Check out the pages here… and here…

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I dont know if I’ll ever have ANOTHER picture of the day… well, I might.. but todays picture of the day is of a monkey