From Gawker article, Meet Stephanie Grace, the Harvard Law Student Who Started a Racist Email War:

Stephanie Grace knows she shot herself in the foot . . .
. . . Which was the bigger mistake: thinking this audience wouldn’t take offense, or thinking they wouldn’t be cutthroat enough to take her down? Someone forwarded the email to Harvard’s Black Law Students Association, and the email made its way to Black Law Students Associations’ email lists nationwide. Then legal blog Above the Law printed the email with her name redacted. As comment moderators fought to keep her name off their site, Stephanie apparently navigated to Facebook and began scrubbing herself from the internet, presumably to minimize how closely the imbroglio would be tied to her name, face, and reputation . . .
. . . Stephanie graduated from Princeton in 2007 with a degree in—wait for it—sociology. She’s on the Harvard Law Review and, after graduation, she’ll head to California for a plum federal clerkship with Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, the titillating defender of free speech who had to recuse himself from an obscenity case when his cache of cow porn pictures came to light.

So happy trails, Stephanie Grace, and when you have a chance, could you please answer: What is the innate intelligence of a half-black, half-white female, naked on all fours mooing like a cow? Judge Kozinski wants to know

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Fallacies are more important than facts – However, data of merit won’t disappear. There has always been a gravitational pull, with an arcane selection process, upon people to produce towards truths and the nature of reality – It has always been and should always be – It’s just a different level. We’ve just gotten used to one phase of mass media, with an unqualified or unattenuated distribution of knowledge, however we are probably entering a different phase with the rise of the Global Theater over the Global Village.

Fallacies are more important than facts
— Marshall McLuhan

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I recant. It’s a terrific idea:

It fixes world problems. Usury is a crime, so any form of interest-bearing loan is illegal. Loans themselves would be illegal – Men shall not pay for with work they have’t done yet. The military-industrial complex will beat all those swords into plows. If people want fruitful transactions, then yea, they shall then go forth and multiply, planting much seed from which shall issue the labor for pulling those plows around the ground that will be thy sole sustenance.
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You catch monkeys by making a hole in a coconut so that it is just big enough for the monkey to insert his hand. You make a smaller hole at the other end, pass a rope through it that’s knotted at one end, then pull the rope through til the knot catches. Then you bait the coconut with some food and tie it to a tree. The monkey puts his hand in the coconut and grabs the food, but then can’t pull his hand out because he’s made sort of a fist and refuses to let go of his booty. They never let go. All they have to do is to let go, then they can extract their hand, but they don’t. They never let go. They never escape.

Some people are the same way.

Ed

I really like this Shooshism from my friend, Shooshie, a very gifted musician, composer/arranger, poet and Renaissance man. It cracks me up.

The problem with mankind is that man is a pack animal,
with pack animal instincts. The invention of writing gave man an
opinion, and suddenly he decided that he was not like the others in the
pack.

History has been the play between individual dissociating from
the pack when he’s got food, and trying to rejoin it when he doesn’t.
Government has been the act of the pack trying to get the individual to
share his food, while trying to promote his independence when he’s got
no food.

That behavior promises to be around for a long time.

Shooshie

Ed