When I decided to compile my thoughts in a more organized fashion, my niece said, “Oh, a blog!” So I suppose I now have a “blog.” What I don’t have yet is many followers, so please come back often, share the content, and tell your friends to spread me wide. I hope to put out a thought or two regularly, and I do promise to read and respond to as many fan comments as I can get to! Oh Myy!
When Knick’s player Jeremy Lin went on an unprecedented tear, he
up-ended all manner of thinking about Asian Americans in
sports–and society. This strapping son of Taiwanese
immigrants defied conventional notions of Asian Americans as
docile, unassuming, or (as I was inaptly described recently by a
teammate on Celebrity Apprentice) “meek.”
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We have a tremendous opportunity, through the medium of theater,
to reach hundreds of thousands with this incredible story of
strength, honor and courage in a time of great sadness and
injustice in America. Please watch the video all the way
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There is cause to celebrate today. The Ninth Circuit’s
ruling today upholding the decision of Judge Walker takes
California–and this nation–one important step closer to
marriage equality. It reaffirms that the proponents of Prop
8, who would deny this basic right to millions of their fellow
citizens, never had any real facts to back up their claims that
same-sex marriage harms traditional marriage, or children, or
society at large. Indeed, as the plaintiffs showed in the
trial court, study after study has demonstrated that promoting
stable, loving relationships is a good
This video is of an brutal attack upon a diminutive man by three
assailants outside a grocery store in Atlanta, who yelled
“faggot” while repeatedly beating him.
Another exhorted “no faggots in Jack City.” The video
was posted yesterday to YouTube, but it was removed as too
graphically violent. I am providing the link to the
original video on the Worldwide Hip Hop website.
I warn you, it is disturbing indeed
We live in a world where we rarely stop to think about where the
food we eat, the oil we burn and the products we use come
from. Recently, the radio program “This American Life”
exposed the horrific working conditions in Apple’s Chinese
factories that manufacture the iPhone. Finding
it cheaper to use human labor than to automate, the factory
assigns workers to shifts that has them performing the same
repetitive tasks, sometimes for up to 35 hours straight,
often resulting in debilitating and irreversible carpal tunnel
syndrome. This was on top of New York Ti
For 24 hours that began at midnight tonight, I will join
Wikipedia and sites like Reddit in protest over pending
legislation in Congress.
The bill is known as SOPA–the “Stop Online Piracy Act–backed by
Hollywood and the music industry, but opposed by most of Silicon
Valley. SOPA is aimed ostensibly at protecting copyrighted
material, but as drafted threatens to choke off the Internet in
much the way China does now–by killing the source of oxygen.
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