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I’ve often found that if I go down the list of “liberal” issues with people who say they’re Republican, they are quite liberal and not in sync with the Republicans who run the country. Most don’t want America to be the world’s police officer and prefer peace to war. They applaud civil rights, believe all Americans should have health insurance and think assault weapons should be banned. Though they may personally oppose abortion, they usually don’t think the government has the right to tell a woman what to do with her body.

There’s a name for these Republicans: RINOs or Republican In Name Only. They possess a liberal, open mind and don’t believe in creating a worse life for anyone else.

From the first of Michael Moore’s dispatches from the Republican National Convention.

On the first night of the Republican National Convention, there were a
lot of things that nobody heard. In almost four hours of speeches –
speeches devoted almost exclusively to the attacks of Sept. 11 –
Osama bin Laden wasn’t mentioned once. [Salon]

So, yeah, the new iMac is out. I think I still like the old design better. Update: Cult of Mac has probably the most concise summary of the design progression that led to the first flat-panel iMac, and now the second.

Via the much-ballyhooed GMailFS we discover FUSE, a userland layer for playing with filesystems under Linux.

The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect ‘domestic security.’ Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent.

—SCOTUS, redacted by the Justice Department and removed from the public record.

Cute: a subclass of str which includes
regular-expression operator overloads (e.g. to match, restr("wombat") / "...$").

Printer: phast@rhea ‘HP LaserJet 9000dn in DH3058′
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