Sleeping on the Job
Patterico has been sleeping on the job, but Eugene Volokh busts the Dog Trainer.
UPDATE BY PATTERICO: If only I had been neglecting my actual job, you would have seen a post on this earlier. Unlike law professors (and apparently judicial clerks), some people have to actually work for a living. Coincidentally, I was just sitting down to make the exact same point about the headline to the L.A. Times piece. I sort of thought racial preferences were pro-bias myself. Anyway, I thank Eugene Volokh for saving me the time.
My only other comment on the article: when you read it, note how “critics” have numerous problems with Prof. Sanders’s work — but the article never gets around to substantiating a single one of the critics’ objections. I guess we just have to take their word for it that, for example, there are reasons for poor performance by black law students besides affirmative action. What those reasons might be are conveniently kept a mystery.
The LAT is like Viacom (Rathergate). You have to take what they say on faith. Don’t ask for proof.
Comment by Rod Stanton — 11/16/2004 @ 8:11 am