Not remotely supporting anti-immigrant policies, but you only had to be in high school or graduate from high school to receive DACA. And a lot of what drove up those deportation numbers during the Obama years were formal deportations at the border. Previous administrations just sent people back without formally…

I got the Reserve with a score of around 770.

I got the Reserve with a score of around 770.

When I first saw this headline, I thought it was from the Onion. Reasonable people can debate the merits of various affirmative action policies, but how is this investigation a good use of limited DOJ resources?

Well that just cheered me up

“Also, notice how Nieto used more discretion with his taser on a possibly dangerous dog than the cops used with their guns on someone just sitting on a park bench.”

This is what I never understand about the anti-Uber/Lyft people when it comes to arguments about safety. If a regular taxi driver assaults or robs you, you have no way to even know whom to accuse, unless you memorize his name/taxi ID number from a little placard in the back or memorize his license plate number...while…

Maybe knowing people from other backgrounds helps, but it is far from a panacea.

I grew up in a very racially diverse place, and there was actually a LOT of racial tension. In fact, most of the most optimistic white liberal/progressive types that I know tend to have grown up in pretty homogenous places where their…

Right. And increased demand caused by higher wages leads to dis-equilibrium with supply (i.e. demand outstrips supply), which causes prices to increase (i.e. inflation).

If everyone's wages dramatically increased by as much as you're suggesting that there would be massive inflation, offsetting most the intended effect. A more modest increase probably wouldn't do this, but more than doubling the minimum wage would make prices spike across the board, causing skilled workers to demand…

"Source: current AU senior who definitely doesn't go to parties anymore now that I can buy my own booze."

Step one: stop reading about parenting on the Internet. Step two: don't move to a suburb and become a SAHM. Step three: see step one.

Yeah, the look of confusion on people's faces when you explain that one can have a Spanish last name and speak Spanish without being Mexican is priceless. Not to mention that Mexicans themselves are much more diverse than most yanquis realize.

Yeah, I thought the 'I don't see race' thing was a joke made up by Stephen Colbert until I heard an educated dude express the sentiment during a discussion about urban poverty and segregation in the US a few months ago. I was so taken aback it was hard to respond.

Interesting. Reading through the posts, some of the 'microaggressions' were outright hostile/racist/rude, whereas others seem like the askers could have failed to perceive how their questions/comments might come off.

Brava!

1) King Henry VIII became fat later in life. Being King of England and all, he was likely the exception, not the rule, in terms of his access to food and activity level. He also suffered from horrendous health problems.

Yeah, I think studies like this apply to large high schools. My graduating class was > 800. We had courses like Japanese, Women's History, and AP Physics. I know people from rural areas who had <50 in their class, bussing people in from all around the county. To me that's crazy!

I think it assumes that when you get to high school, you are being exposed to a bunch of new people. That was my experience. My HS class was 5x my 8th grade class, staying in the same school district. Clearly that's not true for everyone. That said, my friends came from a combo of the sport and activity I joined, as…

Wow, what a crushingly sad article.

Who is actually "obsessed" with virginity, except for evangelical types? If anything, I feel like the pressure in my group of friends in late high school/early college was to "lose" it sooner rather than later. I do remember having to sit through some obligatory abstinence talks in the 8th grade, but even then we all…