The Conversation
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (7)
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Colin: I’m pretty sure Jeremy Lin and his supporters are not the same person.
- colin: I was pretty impressed with Lin, until some digging around leads me to believe he’s more interested in...
- Eurasian Sensation: Why does anyone give a shit? The US is the global capital of people loudly claiming their love...
- What Cultures Value (21)
- “But he hit me back first!” (37)
- colin: It’s taboo to speak this truth in America, but here it is: Blacks are as racist as, if not more than,...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Raguel: It’s interesting that you raise the Indonesian Chinese, as there are indeed some...
- Raguel: As heated as the debate has become I think that it has been productive. The perspectives raised, unpopular or...
- Seeking Asian Female (7)
- King: “If I ever get a mail order bride I will get her addicted to sex first.” I assume you mean with you...
- bigWOWO: Linda, Haha! Maybe that dude is on to something with the foreign language nagging. But to be honest, maybe...
- raguel: LOL @ Chen and traumatic comedy XD The more I discover about mail-order marriages the more horrible the...
- About A Boy by Nick Hornby (6)
- bigWOWO: That’s a really good point, Raguel. Like it or not, TV executives control everything (including what...
- Raguel: I could be wrong but the distribution windows for media and especially film seems very hierarchical. If you...
- bigWOWO: Illegal streaming? I had no idea anyone did that! Well, I really should check out some movies one of these...
- Superbowl Recipe and Xenophobic Superbowl Ad (22)
- Raguel: Time to get your concealed carry licences, folks!
- Eurasian Sensation: Jeff Yang has a good article about this ad: http://inamerica.blogs.cnn....
- Raguel: I haven’t even gotten to why the ad really is so offensive to us, ROFL
- Jeremy Lin shines (20)
- N: @danny You should youtube his college games. The two against Boston college and the one against UConn. Lol, he can...
- Lingyai: @Ben Efsaneyim Why would it be surprising a non Asian crowd cheering for Lin? Most of the NBA fans going to...
- bigWOWO: Danny and Mojo, Holy crap! That’s amazing! I didn’t know he could dunk either! I think...
- Stop SOPA and PIPA (9)
- Raguel: ^ Nice one Byron! I’m reading through the NYT picks, they’re good!
- bigWOWO: The Times had an Op-Ed by the President of the RIAA, and I commented. My comment was picked as a...
- Raguel: Found a great website, take a look at this: https://www.cdt.org/ Why should privacy be important, in an age...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (402)
- bigWOWO: Here’s an interesting suggestion coming out of MIT: Connectome by Sebastian Seung...
- Battle Hymn of the Kitten Daughter (36)
- Raguel: You know Andre, you and me, I think we and a lot of other folks may have gone through some pretty harrowing...
- Andre M. Smith: Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew....
- Two podcasts that address racism in the military, and Danny Chen the person (9)
- Raguel: The origins of racism in the American military as described by loudestfuckingazns is accurate. Very recently,...
- bigWOWO: Sorry, Larry, just noticed that the spam robot junked your comment. Approved!
- bigWOWO: Agreed. It just has more weight if you include your name. Not that the ideas are any less valid, but it just...
- Facebook IPO (5)
- King: Actually WOWO, I bump into plenty of Asians up at the Art Center College of Design http://www.artcenter.edu/a...
- bigWOWO: Agree with King. This might not be a bad thing for Asian Americans to hear about. We can jump off the STEM...
- Raguel: People are too accustomed to thinking about value only in terms of money. Even artists are guilty of it. Some...
- Activism is as activism does (10)
- trolldetector: Brooks also goes onto say ‘You should attach yourself to a counter-tradition and school of...
- bigWOWO: By the way, speaking of activism, there was a great David Brooks column recently. He talks about how people...
- Raguel: I have no experience whatsoever with activism. I simply do not feel safe participating in it. There is always...
- How to Win a Streetfight (18)
- bigWOWO: No worries. I feel the same way. Nothing against her, but just doubtful.
- Raguel: Hi Byron! I’ve been occupied doing a lot of reading and thinking recently. I suppose its just another...
- bigWOWO: Hey Raguel, What about your comments on ASSK?
I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
- UFC 117 Sonnen vs. Silva Recap (1)
- bigWOWO: I think Michael Bisping solved the Chael Sonnen puzzle today, even though he lost a controversial decision....
- 6 on 1 Beatdown of Asian Man (36)
- King: “I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima...
- SWR: Apparently the girl in the second video was not the girl who filmed the fight. It was probably unwise of her to...
- Raguel: I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima in...
- Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan (Review) (6)
- bigWOWO: Jeff, You called it! They were (if I recall correctly) 7 (twins) and 2. He’s still in the honeymoon...
- jeffat8asians: “Overpaying?” With the possible exception of college tuition (and even that is arguable),...
- Hitler: Kids suck lol.
- The Asian Rock Thread (16)
- ben: I’ve been getting into Asian rock music recently so thank you all very much for uploading all these videos.
- Simple Pickup on ABC News (132)
- “Lazy” Americans and the Decline of the American Middle Class (6)
- bigWOWO: But kobu, how can we have literature and art without money to support artists and writers? About...
- kobukson: I don’t know why everyone seems to think the notion of the decline of the middle class is such a bad...
- bigWOWO: There are a lot of veterans (supposedly) on that site. I can kind of understand it–military guys are...
- Aung Sung Suu Kyi Movie with Michelle Yeoh (45)
- bigWOWO: Eurasian, Lee Kuan Yew has always been upfront about Singapore’s hybrid system. To the best of my...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ BigWowo: New governments following independence or a major power struggle often have the sort...
- N: @bww And ironically, one of the rare democratic successes in the region that is Singapore behaves much closer to a...
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (7)
Monthly Archives: October 2008
The RiceDaddies Empowerment in Diversity Challenge
Rice Daddies Challenge
SoulSnax from Rice Daddies sent me this awesome activist initiative that the Rice Daddies have been working on: the RiceDaddies Empowerment in Diversity challenge. They raise money for educational purposes in order to teach our kids culture and leadership and to instill our kids with self-love. I think they’re the only Asian American internet site which has such an initiative. From their site:
With that in mind, The RiceDaddies Empowerment in Diversity Challenge aims to mitigate the marginalizing effects of diversity-negligent pop culture and media by funding innovative educational programs that do the following:
- Promote positive images of ourselves for our children
NY Times endorsement of Obama
Lincoln: First NY Times endorsee
Just wanted to point you all towards this awesome NY Times editorial endorsing Barack Obama.
It’s great that the Times is sticking McCain over his support of deregulation (which even Greenspan is now regretting), and I think it’s awesome that they’re calling attention to the coolness and rationality that Obama is exhibiting in dealing with this financial crisis. It’s also good that they’re putting the blame on Bush for the past eight years of failed leadership. Bush has done so many bad things in office: created a tax plan that has increased inequality and created and new guilded age, led us into an illegal war, created a domestic spying program that has ignored rights of American citizens like no president before. It’s good that there will now be a historical record to hold him accountable.
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Greenspan and "Free" Markets
Saw this in the NY Times. Alan Greenspan has said for the first time that he made errors in judgment during the huge subprime boom. Actually, I specifically remember him supporting subprime mortgages because he was the most quoted guy in the mortgage banking industry. He said that subprime mortgages were great because they allowed more people to get into homes.
WASHINGTON — For years, a Congressional hearing with Alan Greenspan was a marquee event. Lawmakers doted on him as an economic sage. Markets jumped up or down depending on what he said. Politicians in both parties wanted the maestro on their side.
$150,000 and the Double Standard
Campbell Brown
There was an interesting commentary on CNN.com today by Campbell Brown, where she discusses how the RNC spent $150,000 on Sarah Palin’s wardrobe. Brown argues that the public judges men and women differently based on appearance, and that the expenditures on Ms. Palin’s wardrobe may be necessary because of this double standard. She writes:
There has been plenty of talk and plenty written about Sarah Palin’s jackets, her hair and her looks. Sound familiar?
There was plenty of talk and plenty written about Sen. Hillary Clinton’s looks, hair and pantsuits.
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First Asian Boy
Everyone is posting this up, so I’m going to be a follower and will do the same. I don’t know about the political ramifications of such a video…but it’s absolutely hilarious. Enjoy!
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Admin notes/thanks!
Hey All,
Just wanted to give you all a quick thank you for participating in what is almost bigWOWO’s first month of operation. It’s been awesome so far in terms of moving the conversation forward, and I sincerely appreciate everyone who has visited and left comments. If you’re lurking, I invite you to leave comments. We’ve got people with a serious activist mentality which is what I think we need. After all, there is little fun in talking if we’re not going to make change.
So just a few administrative notes:
Lawn Thatching
Jaehwan's New Thatcher and Thatch
Many of my readers live in metropolitan areas. We’ve got people in San Francisco, New York, LA, and other big, big cities. So many, I’m guessing, don’t deal with mowing lawns, raking leaves, and planting food. I actually do a lot less of this than I should, but living in the suburbs of Portland metro, it’s impossible to go without at least a little big of gardening. I was hoping to avoid it entirely as I often don’t have enough time for reading and writing, but sometimes I find that garden and repair work becomes relaxing. It gives me the opportunity to get away from the books and computer, and it gives me a chance to see nature (though some might dispute whether a lawn is really reflective of nature).
"Maverick" in the Oval Office
The Maverick
Thought you all might find this funny: Palin as President.
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Princess of Nebraska bombs
Orientalism: Once again, rice chasers on a pedestal
So I told several people that Princess of Nebraska, a brand new film by Wayne Wang, was being released on YouTube. I announced it privately because it’s a big statement when a famous director, Asian American or not, releases a brand new film on YouTube for free. Having not liked Wayne Wang’s previous work, I sent it out with nary a thought of whether the movie was good or bad. I found this e-mail in my box:
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The Ever Wistful Jaehwan
(Music above is Eye in the Sky by the Alan Parsons Project. It’s what I’m listening to right now.)
