Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
When we identify someone as a member of a particular race, we are describing real things about them
Yes, and perhaps not, though. Unless you siphon off all the mixed people and describe them differently. As far as I can tell, there's no comprehensive medical test for race.
I do think it can be a useful construct, but it's not a complete one. It says some probably things about a population, but things get more uncertain the smaller your sample.
Yes, race is just an arbitrary designation. Which means that virtually every random group of people has been described as a race by another random group of people. Including Jews.
Dude, are you trying to inflict Godwin on this conversation?
Hello dudes. Hit the front page of Google's Blogger (where, in fact, the word blog originated. I think), and check out the link to Drive. You couldn't buy that kind of publicity. (Well, you could, but it would cost and stuff).
Eep! I better whip up my review posthaste.
Yes, and perhaps not, though. Unless you siphon off all the mixed people and describe them differently.Sure. That's why I said a given individual won't have every characteristic you associate with their race. Because it is arbitrary, because everybody's "mixed" to some degree.
"Mammal" is another arbitrary designation. It's a handy way of describing a particular set of characteristics in animals. The fact that the platypus doesn't have all of those characteristics doesn't prevent us from calling it a mammal. Because it's still more like a mammal than it is like something else.
Any system of categorization is just a ways of grouping a set of things (or people) together so you can talk about them usefully. The fact that exceptions exist doesn't make the categories useless.
Jackal has done his (hers?) and it's up.
I've got a full Drive site in development, also. I've been sitting on drivefans.com for a long while. I'm doing it under the badge of my viral fan marketing company as, you know, it's Minear. (Now a verb meaning 'good drama'. Or possibly 'death', you never know).
Where is Google's blogger? Not here, I guess: [link]
He means the site, Blogger.com.
Jackal has done his (hers?) and it's up.
Right first time.
If I was Russell Brand I'd make a joke about your dinkel. And then kill myself.