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Somehow I just heard about longbets.org, a site where people can put their money where their mouth is when it comes to long range predictions. There are plenty of bets by people who readers of this site will certainly have heard of, and the terms of the bets themselves are quite interesting as well. [...]

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Perl.com has posted a synopsis of Larry Wall’s fifth design document for Perl 6, Apocalypse 5, which discusses regular expressions. Regexps are near and dear to my heart (thus proving that I’m truly a total geek). I’m still wrapping my brain around the proposed changes, but they certainly look like an improvement from a [...]

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Howard J Bashman explains how the Constitution works simply enough, for those who don’t yet understand:

This decision is easy to parody; it is easy to denounce. One of the most interesting aspect of yesterday’s television coverage of the ruling was when reporters took to the street to interview the average person. Those interviews suggest to [...]

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The more I think about the Bush quote from yesterday, the more it disturbs me. What does it say about this country that our President thinks that “common sense judges” are ones who “understand” that our rights are derived from God? Doesn’t it make more sense to appoint judges who understand that our [...]

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Here’s a quote that explains why I detest President Bush:

Bush said the ruling “points up the fact that we need common-sense judges who understand that our rights were derived from God. And those are the kind of judges I intend to put on the bench.”

Idiot.

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They’ve ruled that it is, in fact, unconstitutional to chain prison inmates to poles in the midday sun as a form of punishment, and that inmates punished in that way can sue the state.

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One thing you should always remember about Ann Coulter is that she is, above all, a liar. Take, for example, her denial today on TV that she was fired from the National Review. One needs only turn to the historical record to find this October 2 story from the Washington Post that describes [...]

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One of the keys to getting people in this country to accept any level of intrusion into their personal lives is to start training them early. The Supreme Court ruled today that it’s just fine to randomly test students involved in extracurricular activities for drugs, regardless of whether or not there’s any actual [...]

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Once again the press is predicting the death of Salon. We’ll see. If worse comes to worst, they can just start using massive accounting fraud to conceal their true performance — that should buy them a few more years of continued existence. (Update: word on the street is that the Reuters reporter [...]

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UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh is all over the Ninth Circuit ruling today that held the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional due to the “under God” bit. I find the arguments that removing this phrase from the pledge will lead us down a slippery slope that requires us to banish various important parts of [...]

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