The free market does not guarantee that institutions like Harvard or Yale will be fair (after all, they have institutionalized such anti-meritocracy practices as racial preferences and legacies); but it does put constraints on how far they can go lest they lose the respect of the public, and thus their prestige.

This is not an American problem but a human nature one…life is unfair; and those who want to legislate this unfairness away are just trying to impose their morality on the rest of us.

“Democracy is the worst system of government ever devised, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time.”

Regards, Kumar [the non-asian KP; cerified non-sand-n***** by Razib The Atheist ]

This I agree with. Also, have never quite understood why one feels dishonoured/disrespected by questions. IT is simpler to answer most questions than to get offended by them. And if the question is really offensive, it is simpler to give a dirty look and not dignify the question with an answer.

Quite a controversial statement, considering the economic impact of 9/11 on the United States (and the rest of world’s financial markets as a whole). The on-going effect of Islamic terrorism against the West has had huge ramifications on all of us who work in the business arena, regardless of what happened when the dot-com bubble burst. It’s taken several years for the markets (and the associated economy) to recover and stabilise, notwithstanding the current turbulence over the past week or so.

9/11 was used to cover up a lot of sins. The market and the economy was going down before 9/11 and would have ended up a lot worse as all the excess of 1999/2000 had to be wrung off the economy. But 9/11 gave a good excuse to pump more money thru’ tax cuts, easy money by the Feds and security/defense spending. This basically transferred into the real estate bubble in the US and also UK. So IMHO, 9/11 didn’t negatively impact in the short term (less than 5 years) and may even had a positive impact (not the event itself or the other political/social consequences inclduing the impact on personal freedoms, but just the pump priming part actions due to 9/11).

Sorry.

So-called ‘civil liberties’ is a Vedic invention. Americans are too inclined in their culture immature to handle them properly. I want the best of both worlds, the inherent greatness and libetarianism of Hindus, where we are tolerant and can slap a policeman doing his job, as compared to Amreekan not slapping policeman or turning TV volume down. I am also worried about WASP terrorism, but from an ancient great recipe of 18,002 years ago from the Gangetic plain have a cure for wasp terrorism. Don’t worry! We are Hindus. Buzzzz Mogambo!

Man, you are everywhere. Leave it to SpoorLam to put a Vedic twist onto everything.

Curious: is there any topic where it is not possible to put a Vedic slant on?

Oh, here’s a topic: global warming. What do you have to say about global warming?

Yes, becasue the heir-archical and feudal system provides the “rules”. Besides its a shame based society !!! Yes, its due to India’s great culture, people dont give a shit about laws

Don’t worry! We are Hindus.

Buzzzz Mogambo!