Posted
5:58 PM
by Gene
Today I mailed out my Census form. Some con-SER-va-tives have decided to protest the RACE question by identifying themselves as "
American". This is a stupid gesture. Only clerks will see it and they'll roll their eyes. I don't like our government making race such a sticking point but it already knows too much (and not enough) about us; what's an irrelevant factoid like this?
One could make a case for privatizing the Census; but if a con-SER-va-tive wished to make an ASS of himself he'd propose Nielsen -- which should do as good a job guessing the population as it does guessing TV audiences from samples of thousands.