Good news and bad news from the Supreme Court today. First the good. Michigan Law School’s affirmative action admissions process was upheld. To be sure, the undergraduate system was found unconstitutional, but that can be remedied with some tweaking. The five ruling justices rejected the woe-is-us arguments of the pouty right and realized that we still have many miles to travel before we live in a society that isn’t burdened by our racist past.
Unfortunately, SCOTUS also upheld a federal law requiring public libraries to install filters on their Internet connections to be eligible for federal funds. Apparently, protecting our kids from photos of bare breasts is more important than free and unfettered access to information and knowledge. More good discussion at the Shifted Librarian.
Did I mention I’m writing a book? There, I just did. This is meant to be the literary counterbalance to my SF pursuits. It’s also meant to be a bigger canvas on which to paint my own mediocrity.
What kind of book are you writing? Are you writing an SF book, or nonfiction, or something else?
(I’m writing a satirical novel set in the year 2035, very, very slowly. By the time I finish it it might be set in the present!)