But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.
— Bill Bennett, Former Sect. of Education under the Reagan Administration, as quoted on Fox News. Reported by Media Matters, linked from MeFi.
Hi Cyrus, I wandered onto your blog, while researching my former high school (Samohi). Do you have an online biography? (Maybe you do, and I just missed it). I was laughing at your quote: “Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.” Sounds like my wife. Good luck to you, and I’ll try to read your blogs more often (when I am not working 16 hour days!) Cheers, Jeff “Freaky Zeke” Zekas, Susanville, California.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Farivar