Today, Texas executed Kimberly McCarthy. She's the 500th person to die since the state's death penalty was restored 36 years ago. Thou shalt not kill, Rick Perry?

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Congratulations to your niece - she sounds like a really great young woman!

UT is an extremely competitive school to get in to. She might as well have applied to Harvard. She didn't even have any community involvement or club membership. Honestly, even if she were a minority, she probably would not have made it in.

Why she applied to UT? She may have applied before her rank slipped below the 10% mark, or she might have thought her combined criteria (test scores, interview, recommendations, volunteer work) made her a more compelling candidate than she turned out to be. I went to school in TX and something like 30% of my class…

Yeah, no. The funny thing about this case is that it made her scores public. She just didn't make UT's cut. Plain and simple, which has been UT's argument from the beginning. Avail yourself of this: http://www.utexas.edu/vp/irla/Docume… try again. Or don't, which would be preferable.

If I was making the decision, I'd tend to go with the disadvantaged student who busted her ass through terrible innercity schools to get where she is over the one whose father and sister had gone to UT, but that's just me.

That's honestly what really pissed me off about her complaint (well, along with the fact that her grades and extracurriculars weren't all that great and there was no real indication that she would have been accepted even if race wasn't at all factored into the admissions process). She could have still graduated from…

...except that 40% of the kids who got provisional admission to UT that year were white. Next time, you should perhaps do your homework before you start running your mouth.

We already do much of this. Those who argue against affirmative action always seem to mysteriously forget that affirmative action covers a larger number of circumstances that aren't based on color of skin. What happened here is her grades weren't up to par, period. She wasn't in the top ten. Her scores weren't strong.…

...she had the qualifications to get into the school and she was denied, but people who had the same or lesser qualifications got in because their race earned them extra points.

Check your facts again; she did not meet the qualifications to get in at the time. Also she had the chance to transfer after a year or two if her grades were good but she decided not to pursue that route.

In a straightforward world, she was absolutely "discriminated against" - she had the qualifications to get into the school and she was denied, but people who had the same or lesser qualifications got in because their race earned them extra points.

I'll try to be nice... oh screw it.

Whenever I see something like this I realize what a miserable life this person must lead to get so upset over something as inconsequential as a perceived insult on the road. I would never run him over as his life is already so awful that letting him live is punishment enough.

Why is it people always get so upset about Affirmative Action but not about legacies? For some reason we're ok with the historically advantaged having a leg-up over the rest of us, but not the historically disenfranchised.

Southerners pride themselves on "elitism." The further South and more rural you get, the fewer "real" Southerners there are. Essentially, there are certain places in the South that are no longer considered "The South." These places are Florida, Atlanta, and Texas. Florida has to many Cubans and old people to be…

My dad (a small-town Texas good ol' boy if there ever was one) always called anyone who put sugar in their iced tea, sauce on their barbeque, or beans in their chilli a "god-damned yankee". By this standard we can conclude that other 'southern' states and east Texas are mostly just carpetbagging yankees.

I was born and rasied in Southeast Texas and I now live in the magical land of prosperity and acceptance known as Austin. Where I was raised, Texas was considered the South. The further North and West (North West, lol) you get, though, the less stereotypically "Southern" it can be.

Nes. Yo.