The Conversation
- Scapegoating our own (12)
- Frank Chow: @King He definitely said he opposed “same-sex marriage”, that didn’t change....
- King: @ Frank But Manny didn’t even say what he’s been accused of.
- Frank Chow: I think any athlete should be an athlete and accept the responsibility of their words in a public forum....
- Facebook co-founder renounces U.S. citizenship prior to IPO (13)
- Raguel: This is a storm in a tea cup, a new five minutes of hate. This is because despite the outrage, people will...
- Frank Chow: “The country is not over-taxed; in fact, tax rates are near 60 year lows.” -source,...
- bigWOWO: Linda, Mark Cuban is rich (richer than me anyway), and he’s just as horrified as I am. I don’t...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (428)
- LadyBlack: Hello, you who believe that some races are inferior and that some are superior. As a Black (in particular...
- bigWOWO: Thanks, Grover!
- Grover Porquel: Excellent roundup. I have taken on these “biodiversity” types myself over the years and...
- Higher education: the next subprime bubble (5)
- bigWOWO: Let’s think hypothetically. Let’s say they had quotas, such as a company of X number of...
- kobukson: In the past, a high school diploma was sufficient for getting a job. Things changed and a HS diploma...
- bigWOWO: I do agree with you, Ei, to a certain point. I have heard that some lawyers and engineers are having...
- Americans Eat the World’s Cheapest Food (36)
- bigWOWO: A week in, and: I liked the mock chicken, but the family didn’t like it. I don’t know if...
- King: ^ But isn’t Anthony Bourdain the same guy who recently called Paula Deen the “Worst Unhealthy Cook” for...
- kobukson: I like Anthony Bourdain’s take on vegetarians and vegans: “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like...
- Why Do Asian People Have Bad Eyesight? (37)
- Suing the Bachelor for racial discrimination (34)
- George: The problem with the entertainment industry is that they have already stated that blacks are not on the show...
- George: “Oh and prediction, you know the first female non white bachelorette will be Asian, and it will be...
- Chen: i’ve been reading about BFOQ cases, and it seems as if the entertainment industry wins unless they do...
- Reasons to eliminate black studies (23)
- Asian Men, Black Men, and the Competition for White Women (569)
- Raguel: Actually, white people may laugh at him even more, and that may be why they like him so much.
- Raguel: How does this nihilistic dog so filled with ressentiment and love of the slave morality even dare to mention...
- ChineseMom: (continued) Criticism of contemporary Chinese literature and Marxism Q: After the publication of your...
- Immigration records of Asian immigrants to be made available to public (2)
- American woman becomes hero to abused women in China (39)
- Chen: thats it. This woman got beat up, and that is wrong. I’m sure some assholes are going to use that and run...
- Eurasian Sensation: Patriarchal practices are incredibly ingrained in some countries and are extremely hard to shift....
- Raguel: Wasn’t it reported in one of the major american magazines like life, time etc that travelling ulamas...
- San Diego student left alone in cell for five days (3)
- bigWOWO: Haha…I know, Zach! This is the absolute worse kind of invisibility that there is!
- Zach Katagiri: Man — talk about asian american males being invisible!!
- Linda: this will be the next episode of “I survived….” I am surprised they don’t have video...
- Adventures of the Karaoke King by Harold Taw (Review and Question) (4)
- bigWOWO: Alpha, Glad that you see the precious metals rather than the ranking! Although I guess I should consider...
- Raguel: Why not make contact with other blogs and Asian American websites to feature your reviews? This way,...
- Alpha Asian: B, I know what you mean. A lot of reviewers just give very bland reviews and they don’t really...
- Asian women fetch high prices for egg donation (5)
- Dman: I don’t get the article Asian women in demand for donating her eggs. I did not see anything mentioned...
- bigWOWO: I think that buying an egg is financially easier these days than adoption from China. I know people trying...
- Linda: Also regarding about adoption. I think a lot of Americanized Asians are open to adoption in the US. (unlike...
- Re-Programming Your Mind (74)
- Chr..: I’m not making this up! I saw this guy in front of a Trader Joe’s here in NYC not too long ago as...
- Asian Women and the Invisible Chain (187)
- Chr..: @ King Yes, and what can the general masses do to stop with what’s going on right now? Not much I would...
- King: @ Chr Because the money, more than anything else, is ‘the system’ that affects everything else.
- Chr..: “The whole thing looks like a very twisted version of musical chairs, doesn’t it?” Why does this...
- Creative Monopolists (3)
- Asian husband-wife team on Shark Tank (3)
- Artists Who Refuse to Work for Free (5)
- Courtney: I have been drawing for 22 years. I think it’s really inconsiderate to ask an artist to sit down for...
- More Asian Americans Marrying Within Their Race (106)
- Chr..: “Look at some of the fatcats on Wall Street–a guy who can drop $800 on a single night out isn’t...
- The Richer Sex by Liza Mundy (Review) (12)
- Chr..: “dystopian mating marketplace where, like income inequality, the rewards of female sexuality will go...
- Whiteness and American TV (9)
- Linda: @hadoken – I don’t know why korean dramas are like crack. I go thru phases. since it’s a...
- Scapegoating our own (12)
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Cloning Man's Best Friend
Lancy at the Memorial Tree
A couple in Florida recently paid $150,000 to a San Francisco biotech company to clone their recently deceased dog. Because it’s illegal here, they cloned the dog in South Korea.
The picture above shows “Lancy” pulling at a memorial tree where his original was buried. I wanted to say “predecessor” to describe the original–and to some degree it is a predecessor–but not really, since they may technically be the same being (though maybe not, since twins are separate entities). Man, what a conundrum! Imagine paying $150k for a cloned dog. Imagine being a cloned dog standing right above your deceased original. Now that’s weird.
Asymmetry
Remember earlier this month when I blogged about atheists in Britain who were promoting atheism through bus ads? Well, according to the Washington Post, Christian groups in the UK are fighting back with their own ads, and as usual, the organized religious leaders are fighting dirty without regard for ethics or fair play.
Thousands of people in Britain recently raised $200,000 to place an ad on 800 London buses that reads: “There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
This Ain't No Disco
Hit it!
This ain’t no disco
It ain’t no country club either
This is LA!
–Sheryl Crow from “All I Wanna Do“
The funny video above has been getting around the AA blogosphere. I think Alpha broke the news first, and then everyone started posting. Anyway, the most recent blog to link it is 8Asians, where John also provides linkage to the two actors in the video, Grace Su and Danny Cho.
Author of Slumdog Millionaire
Vikas Swarup, author of Slumdog Millionaire
In case you were wondering, Vikas Swarup, the author of Slumdog Millionaire, is a high ranking diplomat from India. He wrote the novel in 2003 while on an overseas diplomatic assignment in London.
I plan to see the movie. I haven’t yet, but it looks like a great, feel-good type of film. I doubt the novel is deep like Naipaul, but look at how a movie like this gets in front of so many people! The effect has to be transformative. Who in American knew that there could be such beautiful romance in India? It certainly doesn’t gel with the commonly held stereotypes.
Miley Cyrus Does the Eye Thing
It looks like it’s Miley Cyrus’s turn to do the eye thing, the same thing that the Spanish basketball team did during the Olympics. You can see the story here or here.
I think both SEFTRE and AAM covered it well. As my long time readers know, I covered the Spanish basketball team when they did the same thing, so there’s no point in rehashing what has already been said. If you look at some of the comments in the links that the other two blogs provide, you’ll see the kind of dismissiveness that some of the non-Asian commenters are leaving. Nothing new here. When you go through life without having to face mockery and violence on the playground on account of your race, I guess it’s hard to see what it’s like to be on the receiving end.
Q and A with Bill Keller from the NY Times
There is an awesome web question-and-answer with Bill Keller, executive editor of the NY Times. Everyone is worried about the economy, and as one might expect, everyone asked him about the NY Times’s business model and the future of news print. It’s not even his department, but he answered it very well.
I especially appreciated his insight into the economics of running a newspaper. Check out his analysis of the LA Times, which announced that it now makes enough online revenue to cover its newsroom:
