It's not just economic disadvantages, it's race, or at least the idea of race. Whatever else is on a resume, whatever experience or qualifications, in the U.S. a black-sounding name will get many fewer call-backs. That's how it is whatever any one cares to think, whatever pet theory or lofty-sounding ideal.So what if trying to balance this involves racial discrimination--so what? Is it tainting our cultural purity on that score? Suddenly everything is ideal except for the unfair advantages that minorities have? It would be a good idea to just shut up with that garbage, it insults the intelligence of everyone anywhere near it. Bush is wrong. He'll fail, but do harm while he's at it.

   It's all right that our system elected him for a term; the fact that most people who voted weren't behind him will undo him, all the more, the more he ignores it.

   I'm still exhausted from trying to be respectful of ideas I don't really respect, on some other threads. It wasn't worth it, wish I'd just said what I really think.