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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Collections, Sets, Lists, and the Deep Existential Question of Equality

By Robert Fischer | March 28th, 2006
Okay, this is getting ridiculous -- Java's got an admission of fundamental brokeness built right into their API.
Posted in Classic, To Be Categorized | 1 Comment

Useful Idiots

By Brian Hurt | March 25th, 2006
In the face of an opponent who knows no ethical bounds, deep skepticism is necessary to prevent becoming a tool of that which you oppose.
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For sale: Your tax return

By analog | March 24th, 2006
The IRS, the GOP Congress, and the Bush administration plan to sell your tax returns to, well, whomever wants to buy them. This is what they call a "safeguard", and "not a significant regulatory action". There's a simple, beautiful understanding to any words used by the modern GOP... just take the dictionary definition of the words they use, and they mean the opposite.
Posted in To Be Categorized | Tagged | 11 Comments

Compassionate Conservatism

By Robert Fischer | March 19th, 2006
A more careful look at what we mean when we say "Compassionate Conservatism".
Posted in To Be Categorized | 15 Comments

No Such Thing as a Moderate Republican, Part III

By Brian Hurt | March 19th, 2006
Peggy Noonan wakes up and smells the con, and John McCain hires Bush's con man
Posted in To Be Categorized | 2 Comments