Author: me knows best

I know it’s tedious, but lately some of my friends have been doing this hallucinogenic drug called “Loose Change”. I’d like to stage an intervention.I know that years ago there was a ban on this...

Recently, I shared My Own Life in Politics and said that the topic of race had hardly come up in my traditional, conservative Southern white family. (I realize some of those words are redundant!) While it is true and I am...

[It started getting too long for a comment — I’m just so damn mouthy. Anyway, Boo, I’m really glad you started this line of thinking. I’ve been wanting to chart my own political history for a long time...

A summary of the news from the first two days of the defense (anti-gay side) in the Boies/Olson federal lawsuit going on right now: Gays Are Discriminated Against, But They’re So Popular That It Shouldn’t Matter! Or...

BooMan’s post  A Word on Princeton and Affirmative Action made an impression on me (as well as many others). In it he lays out the simple facts that there are variables taken into consideration in competitive...