The Supreme Court heard oral argument in two cases yesterday, the issue being whether urban schools can use race-based classification systems to maintain racial diversity. The New York Times is reporting that a majority of the new Supreme Court was decidedly antagonistic to the race-based classification system. Evidently, the ends don't justify the means. Take that, Machiavelli!
The District of Columbia got a little unexpected help from Utah, of all states, in moving a step closer to getting an actual, honest to goodness vote in the House of Representatives yesterday. Evidently, massive political and racial divides don't matter when it comes down to getting another notch on the voting belt.
In an effort to make Snarky's nightmares come one step closer to reality, Senator Sam Brownback formed an exploratory committee to examine a potential run for the presidency. Yes, this is the same man whose presentations to his peers in Congress have included animations of talking stem cells and family portraits that contain no gay people (that he knows of). One can only imagine what kind of presentations we'd get from him once he had all of America as a captive audience! If that man is elected president, I will happily jump into a vat of polonium and defect.
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Isn't the "ends justifying the means" philosophy from Jeremy Bentham? Could also be Machiavelli, I must confess I never read it.....
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