There was a comment on proportional spacing on the page. I had a proportional spaced typewriter in the 1980s that had belonged to my father long before that, probably in the 1960s. It was an IBM that would shake the desk when you powered it up and could launch books across the room with the carriage return.

No idea about the superscript th, and I don't care enough to ask somebody who would know. Really, I don't care if Bush was too busy snorting coke to fly and Kerry was murdering Vietnamese children when he was supposed to be patrolling the river.

past is prologue:


If there's one enduring motif in the life of George W. Bush, it is
that he's always been sheltered from the consequences of risk -- that
is, of failure. Exposed to the draft, he had business and political
associates of his father get him a slot in a National Guard unit far
from Vietnam. Below average student, Ivy League schools.
As an oil bidness entrepreneur, he would have gone
belly-up on several occasions but for the intervention of more such
associates, for whom the notion of helping out the vice president's boy
had a certain je ne sais quoi.

No wonder risk and opportunity are all jumbled up in the mind of George
W. Bush. Privilege has trumped risk at every turn in his life. ...
...........
The dirty little secret of Bushonomics is that risk -- excuse me,
opportunity -- is for suckers. Like the American people.

Mommy, what's a typewriter?