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The things you'll find with Google. Rosemary Jacobs has argyria, a permanent, blue-gray discoloration of the skin from taking colloidal silver in the 1950s under directions from her doctor.

You may have heard of argyria during the 2002 elections, when Stan Joness, Libertarian candidate for a Montana Senate seat, made news because he suffered from the condition. In Jones's case, he used colloidal silver in 1999 out of fears of a social collapse in the year 2000 that would make antibiotics unavailable. (And Libertarians wonder why people think their party is a joke.)

I Googled for "colloidal silver" after seeing ads in Mother Earth News at the library tonight. I love hippie gardening, but hippie medicine sure sucks.

Business 2.0 discusses selling to the Federal government, and predicts that Federal IT spending will grow 50% in the next three years. This is interesting stuff if you're an e-commerce guy with a Federal purchasing contract.

Like a lot of people, I've thought that - in retrospect - George Bush, Sr., should have taken out Saddam Hussein while he had the chance. Now I'm not so sure. It turns out that the elder Bush may have been wise to limit the scope of the Gulf War.

Two publications at opposite ends of the political spectrum have noted how differently Bush I and Bush II have approached crises in the Middle East: Business Week and Salon both observe that Herbert Walker was careful to work with the U.N., build a coalition, and clearly define goals. Shrub, on the other hand, tried to ignore the U.N., insulted our allies, declared the U.N. vote inconsequential, and vacillated as to whether the goal was disarmament or regime change.