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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
May 1, 2009
Miller: The Role Of Blank Slateism In Consumerist Capitalism
In Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior, Geoffrey Miller writes:
The fetishization of youth and disparagement of wisdom in consumerist social judgment
Civil Rights Law Doesn't Care If You Die:"Don't Even Think Of Noticing That A New Guest Is Arriving From Mexico...
From Walter Olson at Overlawyered.com:
It can get tricky when 1) having swine flu may itself count as a protected disability under laws like California’s; 2) innkeepers are required to report communicable disease to authorities; 3) they must nonetheless avoid infringing customers’ privacy; and 4) they can face liability for not taking steps to protect fellow guests and their own workers. And don’t even think of noticing that a new guest is arriving from Mexico…
Governor David Paterson Settles Suit By Photographer Who Was Fired Because He Was White
Governor Paterson's joke, below, that because he can't see very well, he wouldn't know who was a minority is an old one. It's also obviously not true.
Poor Old William Saletan
Slate's "Human Nature" correspondent got such a beat-down from his friends when he said a few things in defense of James D. Watson in 2007 that he's decided that it's best just not to think about race anymore:
True, False, or Neither?
The perils of analyzing test scores by race.
David Brooks On What Mozart And Tiger Woods Had Going For Them
Rick Perlstein Almost Figured Out The Mortgage Meltdown In 2007
Mike at RortyBomb just pointed out to me an insightful four-part series from way back in July 2007 called "The Foreclosing of America" by liberal journalist Rick Perlstein, author ofNixonland, which is all about evil Republican racists. Perlstein's theme was how the Bush Push for the "Ownership Society" led to the Housing Bubble:
Parallel Parking and Disparate Impact
A recent study showed that IQ and similar tests were highly useful at predicting who would make it through a year-long truck driving training course. In comments, though, several of my readers (who tend not to be deficient in IQ) pointed to their own troubles during their abortive truck driving careers, which usually involved backing a big rig up.
A New York Reader Has A Question For The MSM, The $PLC, etc…But They Won't Like The Answer
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