General update
Got a beer brewing kit from my dad. It's going well. Should be bottling on Saturday, got 23 one litre bottles from a brew store today. I checked the specific gravity of the beer today to see if it would be ready, and it smelled really alcoholic. I'm sure some of that was CO2, not alcohol. According to the chart I've got, it's sitting at 4.5% ABV, which is the American style of measurement, making it standard alcohol content for beer, since their measure works out to a slightly lower number then us for the same amount of alcohol. Once this pale ale kit is finished, I'm gonna try a more complex recipe using proper hops and barley instead of just a malt extract.
I found this story amusing. If you're too lazy to click the link, some white students are offering a scholarship for white students to demonstrate the racism of offering other ethnic groups scholarships. This includes writing an essay describing what it means to you to be a Caucasian-American. There are arguments that minorities need assistance to recover from previous economic discrimination, but is singling people out by race really the best way to do this? It certainly isn't the best way to reduce racism, by making people hyper-aware of their race, and implying their race makes them somehow different. Culture certainly can, but I don't see how race alone does.
I found this story amusing. If you're too lazy to click the link, some white students are offering a scholarship for white students to demonstrate the racism of offering other ethnic groups scholarships. This includes writing an essay describing what it means to you to be a Caucasian-American. There are arguments that minorities need assistance to recover from previous economic discrimination, but is singling people out by race really the best way to do this? It certainly isn't the best way to reduce racism, by making people hyper-aware of their race, and implying their race makes them somehow different. Culture certainly can, but I don't see how race alone does.