This whole piece, and especially that quote, really struck a chord with me. I grew up in a working class family and attended an elementary school in a predominately black and Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles. I earned a scholarship for all four years to a prestigious, private all girls high school. During my time…

As a matter of fact, her father is a “former business colleague” of Edward Blum, the lawyer behind all of this.

I’m a long time out of college but my parents advice would have been “do better at another school and transfer”

I wouldn’t be totally shocked if her parents were the ones who put this in her head. Mommy and Daddy were embarrassed that their legacy didn’t hold enough sway with the Admissions Office to get her in so “blame the coloreds” and don’t let her think she didn’t get in because their alumnus checks weren’t big enough.

IT is unutterably sad to me that her parents did not sit her down and make her realize that she did not get in to the college of her choice because she did not earn it. Bottom line. These upper middle class parents need to get real with their offspring: race and money can only get you so far. Granted, it will get you…

I latched onto that statement, too, for different reasons. Did she and the Fair Representation Project do some sort of research into the students (I know that they looked at their test scores and grades)? How does she know that the students who got admitted did fewer activities than she did? What does she know about…

I just moved to Houston for a job. I live in an area of Houston that apparently has a very good high school and my real estate agent was telling me all about how many people were trying to move so their kids could go. Since I have no kids, I moved a mile down the road, and I pay $200 less a month.Works for me.

I hadn’t seen this comment from Fisher before:

I had nightmares about those locusts and kept asking my mom if they were coming.

Keep in mind, that can swing both ways though. Imagine if we punished lawmakers who write in laws for gun control later found to overstep the boundaries of the 2nd Amendment.

What’s really needed is punishment for lawmakers who pass laws later deemed unconstitutional. There’s really no deterrent playing the appeals court waiting game outside of backfiring the “fiscal responsibility” claim, but...yeah.

The Texas legislature knew exactly what they were doing here, and they knew that even if the law was struck down, they’d win in the mid-term.

I remember wanting to live in a sod house!

That’s exactly what I told my S.O. today. We can’t take this ruling for granted. We have to keep fighting.

The worst is when they would start to die and just chose the most gawd awful places and times to give up the ghost. You’d be out rowing on the river in the early morning thinking ‘oh what a lovely day!’ And then all these mayflies would take that opportunity to die and fall out of the sky—sticking to your sweaty body,…

Bless you. Between the Bible and the year they lived in the sod house, I was legitimately concerned about the threat locusts posed to me as a child.

As disgusting as the mayflies (or fishflies, as they are called where I grew up) are, they are indicators of the health of local water bodies. I try to keep that in mind as I am doing the freakout dance as I frantically brush them off in an attempt to reach the inside of my car without a hitchhiker in my hair.

they need a flock of geese to swoop in and save the day by eating flies

Hey, I just want my people to be prepared.

This seems straight out of the Little House books. #datlocustlife