Links and Minifeatures 04 23 Monday

Sorry, but I don't have time to go through these Carnivals for the most recommended stuff today:



Carnival of Debt Management



Carnival of Real Estate



(Cool, and thank you to the judge!)

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Michael Barone reports on perceptions of bias

"Which brings to mind a conversation with a broadcast network news executive I remember from many years ago.



Q. Don't you think it affects your work product that 90 percent of your people are Democrats?



A. No, no, our people are objective, they have professional standards, they report fairly.



Q. Then doesn't that mean that your work product would be the same if 90 percent of your people were Republicans?



(Quickly) A. No, then it would be biased.

Reminds me of a passage from my first translation of the Illiad, a prose edition aimed at teenagers, when Zeus, looking to balance Poseidon's interference in the battle, amended his oath of neutrality "to be neutral on the Trojan side."



Or something I remember reading about a KKK leader saying, only with "Republicans" substituted for the "n-word"



"I'm not prejudiced. I hate all Republicans equally."



The truly scary thing is that I can envision some folks on the left saying it.



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A Second Hand Conjecture points to The Ultimate Resource, which shows how people are solving their own problems, given the inventive and the means to do so. In other words, capitalism at its finest.