Asian-Americans are identifying themselves as white on college admissions forms to circumvent Affirmative Action programs. Liberal math: a 1997 study found that Asian-Americans needed a 1550 SAT to have the same chance of getting into an elite college as white students with a 1410 or black students with an 1100. Something to chew on the next time the idiots in the media tell us someone is a genius because they went to Harvard.
Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities
After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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