- Scott Horton was not impressed with Eric Holder’s speech about drone assassinations.
- Slate’s explainer on the decline in number of Klan “chapters” is one of the silliest things I’ve read on Slate. Typical sentence: ”Young racists tend to think of the Klan as their grandfathers’ hate group, and of its members as rural, uneducated, and technologically unsophisticated.”
- According to this map, the Mitt Romney-associated superpac has already spent over $500K attacking Santorum. I’ve not seen the ads myself, but then, as I previously suggested, I’m not exactly their target audience.
- The Paris Review blog had a nice piece on Eudora Welty’s house and garden.
- Marc Smirnoff of the Oxford American is really, really pissed off about Garden and Gun magazine and just finally had to vent.
- Going through the New York Times online morgue of decades of unpublished photographs, the LIvely Morgue, has been on my todo-list for days and I’ve still not got around to it.
- Janet Maslin really liked R.J. Smith’s new James Brown biography, and pretty much convinces me to read it.
- National Park archivists at the Edison labs are still cataloguing unlabeled cylinder recordings, and have come up with recordings of Otto von Bismark and Helmuth von Moltke, who was born in 1800 a couple of months before the end of the 18th century. He was recorded at age 90. You can listen to the recordings online.
Anderson: I stand corrected. I thought I had referenced the law school. That was my intent. While there are a lot of undergraduate minority scholarships, particularly after the Ayers case, I have not been aware of a blanket scholarship policy, certainly not like has existed in the law school and graduate school. Sorry I didn’t proof read my post more carefully.
“Don’t go all Romney on us.” Priceless.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification.
I looked back at the 2003 Grutter case. Quotas are no longer an issue. Let’s note that. And O’Connor set the countdown clock at 25 years when there should no longer be a compelling state interest in racial diversity. I’m simplifying it, but you can rest assured, Colonel, that you will see an end to affirmative action before I feel it needs to end.
Ignatius,
As long as there are prosecutions being made for disparate impact, there are quotas. As long as there are “goals and timetables,” with people who are held accountable for meeting those goals and timetables, there are rigid quotas. Once you allow for the discrimination and then allow for goals, there are quotas.
As for O’Connor’s quote, she really didn’t have the authority to set a countdown clock. She has said as much since her retirement. Affirmative action will end when the court says it ends or when Congress decides it ends.