A retreat to safety

Sick and tired of being cut to ribbons and scraped raw, I have retired the Edward London (I just got it !) and the Baili, adopting a rotation using a new blade for 6 days, 2 days each with the Feather, the Weishi, and the Merkur, in that order.

For how long?

We'll see.

How long will I appreciate excellent shaves that are also bloodless, burnless, and painless?

How long can one value privations of what is evil?

(Take that, St. Augustine.)

Update, 0028 hrs, 10/3/16.

I have just had six consecutive days of excellent, bloodless, burnless, painless shaves.

Now if only I don't do something stupid like trying the Edward London, again.

Louis-Philippe

Hugo really likes him.

40 pages of blowhard, tendentious history through the June rebellion of 1832.

Literally, God is on the side of democracy, republicanism, and progress.

Revolution and progress are God's providential will controlling history.

After this 40 page digression, Hugo picks up the story where he dropped it, from the moment when Javert's raid has just missed capturing Valjean.

Les Miserables.

Update,  9/29/16.

Turns out Javert did not know the ambush victim was Valjean, but found it highly suspicious that he had slipped away.

Where it's been going all along

Call to topple Christopher Columbus statue from its Barcelona perch

Hey, hey.

Ho, ho.

They have more sympathy for Twain, To a Person Sitting in Darkness than for Kipling, The White Man's Burden.

None at all for the liberal imperialism of J S Mill.

But all of that concerns imperialism and the supposed civilizing mission that was cited in its justification, and justifies interventions today.

Colonialism, something quite different, is at issue in the attacks on the half millennium long white peopling of the Americas, of Oceania, and various other parts of the world.

As massive and destructive of indigenous societies and cultures as the Volkerwanderung was to the Roman world, but also its opposite because the European civilization that replaced utterly the native societies was so vastly and progressively their superior.

Cruz is on board

Hard to believe, but there it is.

I support and will vote for Trump because he's way better than horrible Hillary

Cops get a presumption of guilt, apparently

Charlotte NAACP President: ‘It Doesn’t Really Matter’ If Keith Lamont Scott Had a Gun

Of course, it's not so much about whether he had a gun as what he may have been doing with it.

Internet handover to an international body

Probably not a good idea.

Edward London long classic butterfly

Newly arrived from Amazon.

At a fall sale price of $14.85, they're selling it cheaper than the Edward London site that wants $17.95, on sale from a normal price of $28.95.

No case, no blades, though it does come in a nice box, mine rather dinged up by Amazon or by the delivery service.

It's quite hefty.

I'll try it tomorrow.

Update, 9/23/16, Friday. 

This is a very heavy razor. 

On one use, I say it seems aggressive, though perhaps less so than the Baili, than which it is much heavier - and longer. 

I used the same Dorco blade today that I used new in the Baili yesterday.  

Excellent shave, but more caution is required than by the milder razors. 

The same is true of the Baili.

No damage, though. 

Like the Baili, a bit harsher on the skin than the milder razors - the Feather, Merkur, and Weishi.

Excellent shave, but I question whether it's any better, or more easily achieved, than the shaves I get with the mild razors.

They do take more touching up, especially the Feather. 

But at less risk of bloodshed and less roughness to the skin or burn.

Hmm.

9/24.

Used the same razor again.

Cut to pieces and burned raw.

As bad as the worst with the Long Feng.

A new low in race pandering by Hillary

Hillary Clinton: "We Have Two Names To Add To The Long List Of African Americans Killed By Police," "Unbearable"

Speaking at a campaign event in Orlando on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton called the recent shooting deaths of black men at the hands of police in Tulsa and Charlotte “unbearable."

"There is still much we don’t know about what happened in both incidents, but we do know we have two more names to add to a list of African-Americans killed by police officers in these encounters," she said. 

"It’s unbearable and it needs to become intolerable."

Hillary urges a new taboo: cops can't kill anybody who's black.

Still, she's not Barack Obama or his former AG.

Update, 9/30/16.

Cops kill a black criminal and streets are filled with black criminals, their families, and their allies, bellowing against racism.

Black criminals slaughter black people in the streets and no one thinks of carrying a sign, much less overturning cars or storming city hall.

But the black criminal masses and their allies and enablers are united in blaming the endless reign of criminality and violence in their neighborhoods on white racism and the system.

Hillary's debate lies.

The lie is that racial disparities in the fate of accused persons at the hands of the criminal justice system are due to racism rather than disparities in relevant, criminal behavior, says Heather Mac Donald.

Hillary's remedy is reeducation of the police by the racial Red Guards of PC.

She and the Democrats are only just less awful on race than Il Duce and the Republicans, with his pledges repeated only yesterday to build the wall and deport the illegals.

The art of the poll

Yesterday, NBC/WSJ had Clinton + 6 over Trump in a four way race.

Today, Rasmussen has Trump + 5 over Clinton in a four way race.

I gather they are pretty much tied with regard to the popularity contest, though she still leads significantly in the anticipated vote in the Electoral College.

Criminals vs. cops

The riots about police shootings of blacks - often by black police - are not rebellions of blacks against whites.

Everybody is lying or delusional about that.

 

They are rebellions of black criminals and their families and friends against policing by anybody.

The yelling about racism is just a delusion of the black masses and so many others serving as a smokescreen, often intentional.

Or as pandering for votes, in the case of Hillary and so many other Democrats.