At the time, the underground comic scene was predominantly male, with an anything-goes attitude that elevated mostly heterosexual male fantasies.
Thomas, in his concurring opinion in the 1995 school-desegregation case Missouri v. Jenkins, wrote, "It never ceases to amaze me that the courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior".
"It never ceases to amaze me that the courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior," Justice Thomas wrote in a 1995 decision criticizing the district court's decision to convert Kansas City into a magnet district.
The vastly over-blown incident last week in which a Sky TV microphone (surprise surprise - Sky TV is owned by Rupert Murdoch) captured a private moment of irritability and candor will -- if Britain's predominantly right-wing press have anything to do with it -- probably be the final nail in his and the Labour Party's coffin.
About that time in college sport history, scholar David Wiggins wrote, "Life on America's predominantly white university campuses... was anything but tranquil".
It was the cultural commentators who were predominantly posh and, therefore, unable to do anything but patronise - however well intentioned they may have been.
But all that really means is that men can now do anything, while women are still predominantly regulated to the same pink-collar career paths we've had since my grandmother worked as a nurse during WWII.
"There is a suggestion of course that a company tax cut goes predominantly to multinational corporations who may not contribute anything more to Australia.
The location fit this year's ACMs, which treated the actual awards as afterthoughts to the main event: the promotion of modern country stars, particularly predominantly male, white newbies who didn't perform anything closely resembling country music.
They are younger, as a group, than non-Hispanic voters, predominantly working class, and they care more than anything about bread and butter issues, like jobs, education and health care.
