Yahoo! News - Dearborn, Mich., Arabs Cited More Often Yes, that's right... rampant discrimination going on under our very noses! Ye gods, what made the percentage of middle easterners being prosecuted jump from a measly 32 percent to a staggering 36 percent in a short three year period???? I thought that past statistics were a sure-fire prediction of future happenings! Never mind the fact that an ethnic type that accounts for a third of the population has about a third of the prosecutions... they're getting prosecuted a whole 4 percent more from September 2002 through 2003 than in the year prior to September 11, 2001. Wait... er... what happened from September 11, 2001 through 2002? Hmmm... apparently those statistics don't matter. Oh well, what a travesty for them to be prosecuted a whole 4 percent more than a year in the past, there's no reasoning in a statistic changing at all!

I hereby establish The Center for Statistical Normality to rally against statistics ever changing! We will petition God to prevent such abnormalities as the number of people struck by lightning in Florida from ever rising above their average per year. I'm sure we can get funding from insurance companies, who would just love to make statistics a sure prediction of the future.

'Spyware' steps out of the shadows | CNET News.com Quote: "We have vendors waiting in wings to see what we come up with. They want to see what's ethical." That's the business world these days for you... the corporations with all of their top brass who have business degrees and lawyers backing them up still can't decide for themselves what's ethical and what's not. Here's a simple guideline: if you wouldn't want it done to your daughter, son, wife, husband, siblings, or parents, then it's probably not ethical.

Hawaiians-only policy at school upheld. That's right... a federal judge ruled that a school could base admissions on race. Here's the ruling. Part of the reasoning for the ruling is the historical nature of the school, and the fact that the school receives no federal funding. So? I do believe that in the past there have been rulings against private schools, and against private clubs when it comes to civil rights. But I'm no judge.

My girlfriend and I were snuggled up watching that most romantic of shows The O'Reilly Factor a few nights ago, and the topic of the night was "Is Gangsta Rap Hurting America's Children? On the show, they had a principal of a Philadelphia elementary school, a rapper (Cam'ron), and a rap producer (Damon Dash.)

During the introductions, the principal said he was a fan of hip-hop and how he spoke to students about his being on the show and that they were excited about how he would be "conversating with you guys". At this point my girlfriend and I just looked at each other and burst out laughing. The principal had just used a non-word. Maybe he picked it up from the song "Conversate" by Case.