And you are here why?

Doonesbury manages to nail how I feel about being married to Nicole...

Needless to say, I feel monstrously inadequate

The Pew Research Center has a study out on interracial marriages , and the numbers are fascinating. First, the high point (literally), 15.1% of all new marriages in 2010 were 'mixed race', up from 6.7% in 1980. Or, to put it differently, of all married people , 8.4% are mixed race, as compared to 3.2% in 1980. And, as you can see from the lines to the left, its pretty much a straight line and shows no realy signs of flattening out. Now for the wacky number.  If you break the couples down, the highest earning couples are White/Asian by a pretty significant amount (almost $8K/yr more than the next highest group - Asian/Asian).  Weirdly enough, this pairing is not really all that common, with only the White/Black pairing being less common. Of course, the best part of the study is that the taboo has most certainly faded.  From the study As of 1987, two decades after the Supreme Court ruling, just 48% of the public said it was “all right for blacks and whites t...