Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
This is turning out to be the week of blog parties.  Last night, without realizing it, I had dinner with a scientist whose blog I read.  He even blogs under his real first name, but he was just introduced as this guy who’s a friend of a friend, so I didn’t think to ask [...]

By Thoreau
I’m in Pittsburgh for a conference, and I was chatting with an immigrant (Latino) taxi driver.  He said that he doesn’t like Pittsburgh very much, so I said he might like LA.  He said (in broken English) that he doesn’t want to raise his little daughter in a city full of Latinos.
This man just [...]

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This suggests that if it weren’t for affirmative action and sensitivity training and such, the US financial crisis would have been even worse.

– nancylebov