"Classist screeds"? Those flithy plebs! (Oops.)

Isn't that first sentence in that link ("A White person is more likely to be hit by lightening than, attacked by a minority.") wrong by a factor of about a thousand?

Fun link. The first sentence ("A White person is more likely to be hit by lightening than, attacked by a minority.") is particularly intriguing — and not just for the grammar.

I believe more recent/detailed scholarship has identified three major factors in propensity to violent crime: parents' marital status; immigrant generation (i.e., number of generations since arriving in US); and certain neighborhood characteristics.

Misspelling the word is an auto-DQ on the right to analyze it - sorry!

"Poise, grace, beauty, and amazing talent..."

Her line, "It's even better when you help..." is SO good.

"yet he was not mown down in the streets."

But pics of men in t-shirts would be inherently awful, per Dayna on Gawker earlier today:

Reckon she'd have been an easy winner if the contest had actually been held. That's a pic with major bipartisan appeal.

Fair enough — the "modern" Olympics are responsible for a lot of antiquated thinking and artificial restrictions on competition... for women and non-amateurs alike.

The article (and headline) don't do much to clarify that women got a 10K (i.e., 6.2-mile) open-water event in the 2012 Olympics.

No worries - you're actually getting multiple stars for the comment, which is a form of bonus entertainment.

"Fallon wouldn't pull numbers on the CW either."

Good points. I also think the institutional talk-show format is terribly ill-suited to diverse content in any case, since they've got x hours per week of guests with high-profile/mainstream projects to push.

Famous last words:

"Because his latest venture failed it means that a non-White male wouldn't be a welcome addition to tons of people?"

Yah, it's been more like sixty days, I think... but who's counting?

So let's look at Arsenio: ratings for that show dropped off 60%; they had trouble booking big-name minority guests; and they were consistently fourth in the time-slot.

I think the underlying premise ("cognitive gaps among PoC exist...") is a little too controversial for most to touch. No bet.