us census

The mind boggles. A lot of good principles do you when you're dead.

So, when I was filling out the Community Survey thing for the census, they wanted to know all about the races in my family. I checked other and wrote in human. Anybody else?

Yep, I sat down with it, I filled it out as best as I could, gave the best answers I was able to, to the best of my knowledge and mailed it in. It seemed like a pain in the neck but it only took 15 minutes or even less and was actually very simple. So I have a public service announcement. If...

source I blame the Hannity / Beck / Coulter / O'Reilly type ideology attacks on reality.

What should the racial categories be on the 2010 census? Or should there be none? The Census Bureau claims there's an April 1, 2007 deadline for it to present its proposed racial categories to Congress. Amazingly, it's getting very little media and political attention, given the huge stakes...