Oh wow. For as long as this idiocy has been going on, I somehow misread that, that’s even worse. Although honestly when talking about admissions to a school with around 40,000 undergraduate students, the difference between 42 and 5 students is statistically irrelevant since BOTH NUMBERS are so absurdly small relative…

Yeah, that could be true. My alma mater definitely subjected the recruited athletes to the same admissions process as everyone, but it was a private school that was smaller and everything was holistic (aka no points). You are probably right that a school as big as UT Austin just removes recruited athletes for the…

Yeah, for example, I have to imagine that the “holistic” admissions process is a way for UT Austin to admit recruited athletes who would not qualify for admission under the 10% plan. I’m sure there are way more Abigail Fishers displaced by athletic recruiting than the minimal affirmative action used by UT Austin.

The number of minorities who got in with lower scores is so small relative to the size of UT’s freshman class that its almost a statistical blip. Sure race may have been a factor, but then how do you explain the fact that, while there were only 42 minorities who got in with lower stats than Fisher, 168 minority…

4-4 would be way better on a national level than a win for Texas. True, it would be horrific for the women of Texas, but if Texas wins, then even if Hillary wins and appoints a more liberal justice, we would see every red state passing similar laws as soon as Tuesday and it would be very hard to unwind the damage done…

I doubt it would be 4-4 if they were waiting this long for it... I think we are going to have a decision either way, which if Kennedy votes in favor of Texas, would be way worse than a 4-4 decision (except for women in Texas) because it would have national precedential effect, and we could expect to see every red…

Nope, its 2, 1, 4, 3

But Dolly Parton is only available in some Live Nation owned amphitheater in Silicon Valley. She’s coming to NYC, and I was excited to see she was mentioned here, but then I found out that the NYC show is not listed and the cheapest GA ticket currently available on Ticketmaster is over $100...

There are some decent artists on the list, but the big problem is that there are a lot of parts of the country that are essentially excluded from partaking. I live in NYC, and the closest venues on that list are either Darien Lake in upstate or Camden, NJ. I’m not claiming a free ticket that would require me to pay…

Was it? I watch John Oliver, but last week the main story was about debt collection, not mutual funds v. index funds... Regardless, I’m not like a financial wizard, but I work in the finance space enough to know I’m happy that our law firm’s 401k is an index fund, and honestly that is pretty much standard at most law…

No, not really. I’m a corporate/securities lawyer for a major corporate law firm. I was pretty much advised by every professor in law school to invest in index funds (partially for the prevention of ethical issues since we represent a lot of mutual funds, but mostly because they tend to perform better, or at least not…

Get out of mutual funds and get into index funds. Those funds still might invest in morally problematic things, but they don’t actively manage what they invest in so much as invest in everything. Also, they typically perform better and cost less in fees.

Most people who are members of the NRA don’t buy all of the shit that the NRA is peddling (this is borne out by numerous polls showing active NRA members overwhelmingly supporting the most basic gun reforms that are currently on the table, like there is more support among the NRA membership for those gun reform…

Well, if you are willing to spend the money, its pretty easy to get tickets to Hamilton. Given that Shonda Rhimes has more money than she will ever be able to spend in a lifetime, she can probably afford to pay the scalper prices...

NEW YORK IS THE WORST MAN. My mom’s friend owns a 2000-3000 square foot, 4 bedroom apartment on the fancy part of the Upper East Side and she has both window units (although slightly more upscale than that) and she doesn’t have a garbage disposal in her sink. I’m pretty sure her apartment is worth at least $5 million,…

100% agree. I know its hard to feel bad for rich people living in fancy buildings when the mere idea of owning an apartment in NYC seems like a unicornesque fantasy, but those co-ops charge through the nose in maintenance fees, and I would certainly be pissed if my neighbor was just blithely allowed to disregard the…

Not to mention that you used to be allowed to swim in the very same lagoon in certain areas, typically ones with a lifeguard present. When they stopped letting you do so, it wasn’t because of gators, it was because of concerns of injury from the rental boats guests are allowed to rent.

RONBLEDORE: http://the-toast.net/2014/01/02/let…

Exactly. I get that there are many legitimate reasons not to like Clinton or be all that excited about her, but I’m fucking sick of people trying to pretend that Clinton would be equally bad for America as Trump. I have never once voted for a political candidate I didn’t have reservations about, and the mere idea of…

In 2008, her healthcare plan was more liberal than Obama’s, without going so far as to be single-payer. In fact it was one of the few actual policy differences they had on the campaign trail. So yeah she wouldn’t have passed the ACA, she probably would have gone further towards universal healthcare coverage.