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And KJB really doesn’t understand math. 😉 https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/07/a-jackson-clarification.php
Man, no kidding. Although, I would extend the lack-of-understanding-of-math to a broad cross-section of attorneys. I had the advantage of a degree in finance, and nearly two decades in the accounting profession, but watching attorneys do math — especially litigators — can be painful.
The article quoted a brief by Norton Rose Fulbright — a very prominent firm, #14 on the AmLaw 100 with over $2.1 billion in revenue.
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Over 60 years there has been an enormous move towards a color blind society. I agree with you in that affirmative action has contributed little to that movement. Unfortunately the stoking of racist narratives by political hacks is counterproductive as hell. And how do I know, I trust my eyes. When I go out to dinner, I see a well-integrated group of diners. Well dressed, excusing the foolishness of modern “style”. Not so much 50 years ago.
I’m sixty years old, and I well remember speaking with members of my great-grandparents’ generation who were virulently racist in a very casual way. Their children — my grandparents — were more accepting, yet still “separate”. For example, my great grandfather thought he was progressive by hiring a Jewish secretary, but he wouldn’t consider hiring a racial minority in an administrative position. His son (my grandfather and Stanford grad) had a Black secretary, and though Granddad spoke positively about her and treated her with respect, he would still consider her “separate” and would be unlikely to invite her over for dinner or to his country club (he’d be considered to be a Rockefeller Republican, who donated extensively to charities).
The next generation — my parents — had friends of different ethnicities. My dad’s three best friends are a former white cop, a Japanese-American and an Indian-American. My mom lived in Oakland for quite a while.
My generation is integrated in what I see as a proactive way — it still takes a bit of effort. Not so much for me — if you live in downtown Detroit, almost all of your friends, neighbors and acquaintances are Black — but people of my generation are that way. We socialize well and easily with minority groups, but I don’t think it’s as instinctive as it could be. I was invited to join the Freemasons, which in Detroit, is largely a Black social and charitable group.
My sons’ social groups are completed integrated to the point that they don’t think, talk or act about it. Both my sons speak at least some Mandarin…my youngest works at a company with primarily Chinese and French engineers in his group (he speaks a little French, Arabic and Russian…just enough to get by).
In other words…the progression of integrating our society has been both substantial and inexorable, at least from my perspective, and individual perspectives have changed on a generational basis…and will continue to do so, as long as race baiters don’t screw it up.
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The Washington Times thinks Biden is going to be replaced by Newsom.
Will Newsom replace Biden as Democrats’ presidential nominee?
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BTW, it’s not just Harvard and Berkeley…it’s Penn State, too.
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Couple of minor observations:
- In the Top 50 list, there are three restaurants in Mexico City and just two in NYC. There are four restaurants in Mexico City and four in New York in the Top 100. Apparently there are twelve (12) restaurants in London that made the Top 100. Okay…
- Speaking of which, there are only two American restaurants in the Top 50, and only four in the Top 100; three in NYC and one in San Francisco (Saison).
- I think NYC cuisine is the most overrated in the country, perhaps in the world. I’ve only dined at about 40 restaurants in NYC, so I know my exposure is limited, but only the very most expensive restaurants are exceptional, in my view.
- Lots of differences between Michelin three star guide and this list.
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Lori Lightfoot was picked up on waivers by Harvard University. Surprisingly she was picked up by The School of Public Health and not the Kennedy School. Good place for someone the voters got sick of.
Just like Chesa Boudin slithering from the SF DA’s office to Cal-Berkeley. Makes sense to me.
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Here’s Greg Becker testifying before Congress. Pocahontas doesn’t like the fact that he took in $40 million in compensation and cost the FDIC $20 billion:
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No doubt you’re familiar with Oceangate, the organization responsible for the submersible trapped at the bottom of the ocean. The CEO, Stockton Rush (and yes, he looks as WASP-y as his name sounds) expressly didn’t want to hire “50 year old White guys” because we were so “uninspiring”.
This dipshit’s sub went missing June 18 of the coast of Newfoundland in 13,000 feet of water. It hasn’t been seen since.
Most interesting part of the story? The former OceanGate director of marine operations David Lochridge — a 51-year-old white guy — reportedly warned Rush and company management in writing that his sub tech was not safe. He was fired and escorted from the premises for his trouble.
It’s quite a story.
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Less than half what population, mick?
Per the 2020 U. S. Census, the population was 61.6% White. Stanford’s undergraduate profile is 31% White — half that of the nation as a whole.
I can recall growing up in a single mother household in SF. Mom couldn’t afford to feed me and my brother, we went to live with my father. She tried to get Laurie into Lowell HS (the “academic” public high school in SF), but was rejected. In the rejection letter, the San Francisco Unified School District helpfully explained that because she was caucasian, she did not qualified for hardship admissions.
Oh.
Anyway, she went off the rails for about 15-20 years, ended up getting kicked out of the crappy public high school she attended. She joined the Army, became an MP, saved some money, got a UCSC english degree, a mail-order Masters and her PhD from SUSE (pronounced “Suzy”), the Stanford University School of Education, at the age of 41 or so.
Always wondered if her life would have turned out differently if she was admitted to Lowell.
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Personal gain or advancing a personal agenda, either one should warrant a permanent ban from holding any government position. https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_bc7aa75e-1045-11ee-ae02-872e646b53c2.html I will be shocked if charges are filed against any of the participants. No one is held accountable for misdeeds, unless you are a poor schmuck who accidentally chokes out a crazy man on a subway. Sad…
I’ve been thinking for quite some time that the Biden case could use a really good forensic accounting team.
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All this was predictable. The beat goes on. As I understand it, Hunter had not reported $3 million of income. Think about that for a moment… a drug addicted, out of work son of a politician ends up with more than 3 million of unreported cash. And that’s what the IRS knows about. I fear that we view politicians as somehow deserving to be rich and famous. And we give them and their families a free pass for the grift. I am way more concerned about politicians and their families selling us out for personal gain than I am some of the more “serious” charges like classified docs in a former office holder’s garage or hotel room. Follow the money. And I mean this in a bipartisan way. Jared what’s his names deal with the saudis is sketchy as all get out.
The list of politicians who got by on a government salary and got filthy rich is long and disgusting. LBJ. Obama. Clintons. Maxine Waters. And now the Bidens.
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Two months later, Budweiser (and Target and Kohl’s) are suffering from their trans marketing campaign. Bud Light’s marketing executive Alissa Heinerscheid trashed the brand for being “fratty” and “out of touch” with consumers.
Interesting choice of terms. I realize that Heinerscheid is using “fratty” as a pejorative. She was Groton/Harvard/Wharton — in other words, perhaps not perfectly positioned to run the marketing for a beer made in the midwest and purchased by people in flyover states. To better understand Bud Light consumers, it is important to note that they often live in places like Tennessee and Oklahoma and that they may purchase Bud Light out of a desire to save a little money. They often have jobs like mail carrier, Amazon driver and high school football coach.
Heinerscheid described Bud Light as a brand “in decline” and one that needed to “evolve” and “elevate” as a way of offsetting its decline.
Possible Lessons: Hiring people to do marketing for a product who have so little in common with the customers of that product is a pitfall that companies will want to avoid.
Here’s some photos of Heinerscheid engaging in fratty behavior at Harvard, drinking Rolling Rock (Eastern version of Bud) and blowing into condoms.
According to a Gallup poll, 7.4% of our society is LGBTQ, and more than half of those identify as bisexual. 1.64 million people, according to the survey, are transgender. That’s a big number. A bigger number are the number of students currently in a fraternity or sorority (about 800k), or who are alumni of the Greek system (over 9 million) that dates back two centuries.
Fraternity men make up 85 percent of U.S. Supreme Court justices since 1910, 63 percent of all U.S. presidential cabinet members since 1900, and, historically, 76 percent of U.S. Senators, 85 percent of Fortune 500 executives,and 71 percent of the men in “Who’s Who in America.” And that’s not counting the 18 ex-frat U.S. presidents since 1877 (that’s 69 percent) and the 120 Forbes 500 CEOs (24 percent) from the 2003 list, including 10—or one-third—of the top 30. In the 113th Congress alone, 38 of the hundred Senate members come from fraternity (and, now, sorority) backgrounds, as does a full quarter of the House.
Anyway…the boycott is alive and well. Doesn’t surprise me. It’s a mediocre beer. There are two minor surprises: (1) Modelo Especiale is now the #1 seller in the USA, surpassing BL, and (2) AB actually owns Modelo everywhere except the United States.
Bud Light Boycott Shows No Signs Of Stopping After Two Months, Sales Data Shows | The Daily Caller
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Cinemark just announced that they are closing down, too…
San Francisco loses another large downtown business as city’s troubles mount (msn.com)
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How to rip a former President / current presidential candidate, by former Governor Christie:
He hasn’t won a damn thing since 2016. Three-time loser: 2018, we lost the House; 2020, we lost the White House; we lost the United States Senate a couple weeks later in 2021; and in 2022, we lost two more governorships, another Senate seat, and barely took the House of Representatives when Joe Biden had the most incompetent first two years I’d ever seen in my life.
Loser, loser, loser. Now we’re getting going. “It’ll be different this time?” Why? Why will it be different this time? Those arguments need to be made, and I’m not afraid to make them for two reasons. One, I’m not afraid of him. And two, it’s the truth.
Chris Christie Says Trump ‘Hasn’t Won a Damn Thing Since 2016’
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I believe the hotels have a five year balloon that is due in the fall. I suspect inflation/Fed response/higher rates/reduced occupancy make the operation uneconomic? The city’s criminal justice reform is degrading the retail environment. This is a canary not an outlier. No wonder Newsom is looking to fail upwards.
Retail revenue down by 1/3rd at Westfield.
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