Written by: Anonymous

Today's piece in the New York Times by Bob Herbert really pisses me off. I'm intentionally not linking to it, because I don't want to be responsible for it being read by anybody.

Now, to be fair, it's quite possible that Bob Herbert is mentally retarded, given how supremely ill-written and just plain stupid all of his columns tend to be. And I know it's mean to lambaste retarded people, but hell, if the Times is going to run his columns, then he's going to have to take the heat.

In today's column, Bob waxes poetic about desegregation, which is fine. Then he goes on to complain that we are now in a period of "resegregation" as a result of all the "reactionaries" being put on the federal bench. As an initial matter, it should be noted that NO ONE, least of all a reactionary of any sort, is being put on the federal bench these days, given what Senate Democrats and their feckless, power-hungry Republican cohorts are doing to the judicial confirmation process. But Bob never lets pesky facts get in the way of his racially-charged rants. Hell, he has enough trouble writing complete sentences. Plus, lest we all forget, John Kerry served in Vietnam.

Anyway, Bob ignores the most obvious reason explaining the phenomenon he, in his race-warrior mentality, chooses to label "resegregation" -- busing. That's right, busing. The courts stepped in and required schools to do it, schools did it, and it resulted in worse schools. Affluent white parents took their kids out of those worse schools and moved them to private schools and, lo and behold, we have "resegregation."

Shocking that the government's attempt to quickly socially engineer a solution to a complex social problem failed so miserably, and in fact produced the opposite effect from that intended. Geez, I bet that's never happened before! But no matter. Bob and his similarly-intellectually-challenged liberal friends won't figure it out, and they'll continue advocating such nonsense in the future. Will conservatives fight back, or will they cave in?