Vladislav Davidzonthe art of doing the impossible – thoughts on the great turning

From Commondreams.org: Mr. DeLay recently revealed how he felt about rules of general applicability. When he tried smoking a cigar in a restaurant on federal property, the manager told him it violated federal law. His response, according to The Washington Post, was, “I am the federal government.”

Sorry Tom, not quite. To be a bit more precise, you and your republicrat buddies are a true disgrace to the democracy… the one we used to have, and the one we will take back from you.
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With the university affirmative action debate dividing our nation, it is surprising that so few questions are asked about the justice or the need for limited admissions. As universities, like any other business, spend piles of cash on advertising and charge ever increasing and unaffordable tuition rates, they simultaneously lay claim to the outrageous notion of education as a limited commodity to be provided to only a chosen few. The claim turns particularly ugly when considered in light of publicly-funded universities denying service to the very people that pay for their existence, and questionable processes which select students based on the donations made by the family from which they come or other factors that speak nothing of the student’s ability.
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I’ve decided to split the weblog into editorials and the weblog. It is simply easier that way, so that I can blog my thoughts in one, and longer more thoughtful editorials in the other. The editorials section is linked from the left side of this page.