Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- It's time to affirm that character is greater than color. Agree but wasn't reverse discrimination already ruled illegal by the Supreme Court?
- Sponsoring an immigrant has financial repercussions. And the bills are coming due.
- Kevin Kelly: The Oil and Water Planet. Some may see this as an anti-oil post but I view it as a pro nuclear power argument. Water is for drinking.
Re quotas: The devil has been in the details. In University of California v. Bakke (1978), Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. carved out a loophole. His position was that quotas were illegal, but that race could be considered in order to achieve a diverse student body. Powell’s view, much to the disappointment of many, survived in the Supreme Court cases of Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger much later; i.e., no quotas but preferences could be allowed to achieve diversity. It was a scam. Only recently have we seen the Supreme Court seriously attacking quotas, but attention will always have to be directed at any devious bureaucratic methods used to hide them.
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