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<dateCreated>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:16:39 GMT</dateCreated>
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<ownerName>Tom Morris</ownerName>
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<body><outline text="Who are the real fascists? &lt;q&gt;The quintessential liberal fascist isn't an SS storm trooper; it is a female grade-school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore.&lt;/q&gt; This kind of thing makes my brain explode. (See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://crookedtimber.org/2007/12/17/fascism-fascism-fascism&quot;&gt;Crooked Timber&lt;/a&gt;)" created="Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:38:33 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://recursed.blogspot.com/2007/12/ten-reasons-not-to-vote-for-huckabee.html&quot;&gt;Jeffrey Shallit&lt;/a&gt; gives ten good reasons not to vote for Mike Huckabee. He is, of course, one of us dirty liberal atheist types, so he would say that." created="Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:04:21 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/biography/story/0,,2226850,00.html&quot;&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt; has a sample passage from a book by Carolyn Jessop, who escaped from a fundamentalist, polygamist Mormon community after being married off to the &quot;community leader&quot; at the age of 18 to a 50-year-old man. If your reaction is &quot;you are just picking on nuts, &lt;em&gt;real religion&lt;/em&gt; isn't like this&quot;, then you are an idiot - 'liberal' religion enables this kind of nonsense." created="Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:16:39 GMT"/>
<outline text="On character encoding issues" created="Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:26:47 GMT"><outline text="Character encoding is a hard problem. I've written about it before, and have gotten really annoyed getting it right. I wish there was just a magic function that I could push strings through that would fix them and make them usable in whatever context is under discussion.&#13;" created="Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:26:47 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:26:47 GMT"/><outline text="Currently, I am running iconv to solve the problem - it is currently storing data as ISO-8859-1, and using the //IGNORE option to remove anything that's not ISO-8859-1. This is one of the main reasons I will, despite previous promises, not release the source code for this blog's software. I don't want to spread this inelegant hack. If you are looking for blogging software, look for something that supports Unicode properly, because my software isn't it. This is &lt;em&gt;not my fault&lt;/em&gt;. I am working within certain limitations, which I won't spell out. Legacy data is a pain, and it's one of the reasons why we need to be careful to design specifications and software the is going to stand the test of time." created="Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:26:47 GMT"/></outline></body>
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