Tom Toles for January 21, 2013

I love Tom Toles, but this is not so much a cartoon as it is a tweet.

Thank God for affirmative action……..

A large portion of male college students in the best schools get in on “affirmative action” because, if college admissions were based on grades and test scores alone (“academic merit”), the colleges would have student bodies 70% female. At my alma mater, the law, not merit, dictates that 2/3 of the students come from in-state and get charged lower tuition fees than “more deserving” out-of-state students who are turned away by the hundreds. (And no, the difference is in no way made up by state funding, not anymore.) At no brick-and-mortar college do the students pay the full cost of their education. All such colleges rely on endowments, alumni contributions, etc., to make up the difference. So even students who pay “full freight” are being subsidized by others. It’s a pity Stipple’s daughter does not mix well with those unlike herself. She misses a good part of a real education that way. Must most people are too self-absorbed and uncertain of themselves at that age to reach outside their comfort zone.

Actually, as demography goes, Toles is quite right. We will soon reach the point that California and Hawaii have passed in which there is no actual cultural majority in this country, but rather a collection of minorities. Unless you mean a group that controls the majority of the property. That we will have with us for some time to come.

I wonder how well she mixes with the legacy students whose parents /grandparents graduated from certain schools, or are big buck contributors? Maybe she will change. I know it took me a long time after college and into the workforce to mix comfortably with those different from myself. And I use comfortably somewhat hesitantly at times.

I predict that some day, our great great great great great great great great great grandchildren will – unless we destroy the planet before they get here – be beige (a tint more brown than taupe)

in order to carry all the genes for all the races, Adam and Evewere probably a cafe au late’ color

Andy Borowitz’s satire that said that Fox News was going off the air at 11:30 today for maintenaance because there was nothing the viewers wanted to see, made Snopes for debunking.

This won’t be “routine” until everyone decides to join the “Human Race” instead of the “White, Black, Brown, Red, Yellow” races.

My dad always said it was 10% of the population dragging the other 90% along. Keep pulling!

“Boo hoo—SOS from Jase—as he once again plays his race card.”I can’t decide if you got it wrong because you didn’t bother to actually read my comment and comment I responded to, or if you changed the facts to suit your predetermined notion. Either way, your comment has zero to do with reality.

“Lord Ears would be fired for his performance anywhere else.”30 years ago, Obama would have been considered a Reagan Republican.

How wonderful is it that our first black president is inaugurated for the second time on Martin Luther King’s birthday? A great, GREAT day for America.

Clark Kent: The next excluded to get included is a toss-up between woman and Hispanic, the rest are too far down the line to predict..Radish: There is another, more recent historical example: When Europeans discovered mixing tin with copper made the harder bronze, Africans were smithing high-carbon steel.

ConserveGov owes a lot to “affirmative action”, it’s what forced the schools to pass him on from the first grade,even though he couldn’t pass any tests, even with NCLB.

“To the U.S.” Say, weren’t the Russians in that war? On “our” side? With multiple multiples of our losses? Did not the “nazis” (i.e. Germans) commit atrocities galore in Eastern Europe? Are those not unforgivable (not to generations of Germansunder, say, age 20 in 1945) but let’s be factual…

Good point in general, Morty, but most American Jews’ ancestors came to this country fleeing pre-World War 1 Russian pogroms, not Hitler. FDR actually let very few German Jews fleeing Hitler into the USA (with notable exceptions for famous intellectuals like Einstein and Freud).

@apfelzrayou are absolutely right. i’m 5th generation american and my ancestors escaped the pograms of the 1860’s.

Hillary would’ve done a better job than Barrack and we all know how horrible Hillary would be as prez.

Riiiiight………How did Barry Soreto get into Harvard?

And if Adam and Eve were the first humans, where did Cain go to get a wife? And where did the other tribes against whom the Jews fought come from? And again after the flood? As a religious narrative the ible makes sense. As history it’s NONsense!