Monthly Archives: July 2007

Is a blog a monolog- or a dialog?

By Brian Hurt | Published: July 20, 2007

That’s the question in my mind as I read Joel’s latest. Yeah, occassionally people are assholes. Welcome to the human race. I first started getting on local BBS’s way back in the early eighties, I was on usenet by 1986, and on the internet not long after. I was on gopher. My user id number [...]

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This Has Simply Gone on Too Long

By Robert Fischer | Published: July 20, 2007

Look up those in Congress who are supposed to work for you, and demand that Bush and Cheney be impeached. Impeach them for obstruction of justice, of harboring a felon (the person in their administration who undermined US intelligence by outing a CIA agent), of aiding and abetting the enemy, of showing flat-out disdain for [...]

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White House Won’t Allow Contempt Charges

By Robert Fischer | Published: July 20, 2007

Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials once the president has invoked executive privilege. (cite) Oh, Christ…why does Bush want [...]

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Just as a Reminder, There Are Two Authors Here

By Robert Fischer | Published: July 19, 2007

The Enfranchised Mind blog is basically two authors at this point: Brian, who has authored the popular posts on Postgres, Nazis, and Lazy Lists, and me (Robert), who talks about the systematic problems in the US government, LOLCats, and how I wish I could do more functional coding. Some of the less-cool syndications of our [...]

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A question I shouldn’t HAVE to ask

By Brian Hurt | Published: July 18, 2007

The Nazis were bad, right? I mean Adolph Hitler, the Swastika, the Final Solution, the whole nine yards. They’re still considered evil, right? Because now I’m not so sure.

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