I know that I must watch your blog, although it dooms me,

Though it consumes me…

After Abortion has a lot of great stuff up right now, including college abortion/pregnancy policies and Democrats, pro-lifers, and shame. Go there!

Get Religion: “Help us out, readers: Do you have any favorite stories of forgiveness — whether of seeking it or extending it?”

And dueling op-eds take on Richard H. Sander’s claim that affirmative action in law schools has led to fewer black lawyers. Sander makes his case quite plausibly here, and Goodwin Liu replies here. Liu spends way too much time on the utterly unconvincing argument that aff. action must work, otherwise black people wouldn’t keep supporting it, because people are rational actors who maximize self-interest. This is interesting except for the small problem that people are not rational actors who maximize self-interest. One of the many things for which we’ll gladly sacrifice self-interest is self-image; Liu’s later points speak more to that concern, as he argues that black students at law schools need, essentially, a posse of other BSatLS’s so that law school achievement is more imaginable and attractive to them. Anyway, go read. I have not read the study that sparked this exchange, so I won’t try to comment further. (Both links via How Appealing.)