The Obama administration would like to create a new racial category, presumably for the Census and other federal forms. USA Today reports:
The White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in decades.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
~ Joseph Stalin
With neither major party able to secure a majority of seats in the national legislature and the two parties unable to agree on a coalition government, for the last 10 months Spain has had a do-nothing caretaker government for the first time in its history. While basic government services continue, no new legislation is being proposed, foreign policy is stuck in place, and many infrastructure and other government projects are frozen.
Last year during a bout of the flu, I was at the doctor’s office. The doctor asked me what I did for a living and I told her I edited an economics web site. She replied with something along the lines of “that sounds like a truly terrible job.” She meant that she imagined economics was simply too difficult and laborious an activity to possibly be enjoyable.
