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: March 2009
Some Good News on the Community and Economic Front
Library usage up. At least something good is coming from this horrible economy. Will this create the educational revolution that we’ve all been hoping for since W brought his proud ignorance into the White House eight years ago? Could it help usher in the era of Asian American Lit that we’ve been awaiting for the last 35 years?
It’s a start.
There’s some possible good news on the way too. According to this NY Times blog, a bad economy can create an environment for inventiveness. Will we see creativity go up? Some entrepreneurs are already starting.
People Who See Dead People
(Picture from Amazon)
I’ve been burning through books this week. Two books and half the fiction section of a lit journal in three days so far, and I’m about to start another book. After the next book or two, I think I’ll have the reading-urge out of my system so that I can seriously write again.
Denny Chin revokes Madoff bail
Judge Denny Chin
(picture from Wikipedia, news sources: Denny Chin, Reuters; Madoff case, The New York Times)
Bernie Madoff, creator of what is perhaps the largest Ponzi scheme in history, is finally going to prison after bilking wealthy investors of literally billions of dollars. Today he pleaded guilty to all 11 charges of fraud, money laundering, perjury, and theft, and he will be sentenced on June 16th. In the meantime, his bail has been revoked, and he will spend time behind bars.
Secret Lives of the Red States/What Asian America Needs Part II
“What does is say that states that tend to be more conservative and religious actually consume more porn?”
–Kiran Chetry from CNN
(Apologies in advance to those who may be offended. I’m condemning the super-fundamentalist religious people, not the moderates.)
The consumption of online porn in the Christian, conservative Red States tends to be higher than the consumption of porn in the liberal, blue coastal regions.
Rice Daddy
Hey All,
Just wanted to drop a quick note to let you all know that I’m joining Papa2Hapa and others and will now occasionally blog at Rice Daddies. See my first post here (a different version of the post immediately below). I’m really happy for the opportunity to meet more Asian American parents. Thank you to the Rice Daddies for a great community site.
Hyperthermia
If you are a parent, read this Washington Post article. Read the whole thing, and listen to the audio presentation above (hear it here if the feature above doesn’t load). The article and audio presentation are about parents who accidentally leave their children in their carseats. It’s really, really sad.
My own view is that these parents don’t deserve additional condemnation from the courts; they’re already beating themselves up over it enough. As someone says in the article, it’s not as if hard punishment will prevent further occurrences on this phenomena. I can understand how this can happen; I’ve been distracted myself at times during that drive to daycare. It can happen to anyone.
Empathy and Kids
I just finished this book: Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life by Stanley I. Greenspan. The book focuses on ten different areas on which to focus when raising a child who is confident, creative, strong, and moral. Those of you in education have probably read tons of books like this one, but it’s a great little book.
My favorite part of the book was the part on giving your child the tools for moral integrity. It says:
IR on the Decline
Saw this on the 44s. Apparently IR is on the decline:
Katie Xiao emigrated from China when she was 4 and always thought of herself as Americanized — until she started dating.
Subtle cultural clashes with Caucasian or Latino boyfriends led to unhappy breakups. It made her realize she’s more Chinese than she thought. Now she wants to meet a man of Asian descent.
Forever Young
I saw this CNN video about Dora. As most parents of young children know, Dora is extremely popular, perhaps more popular than any kids show when I was growing up. Because we live in an era of total merchandising, kids can own Dora dolls, watch Dora DVDs, wear Dora backpacks and Dora clothing, and even use Dora toothpaste. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Dora is a huge enterprise. In this era of big money, Nickelodeon, according to the above video, is trying to extend Dora’s appeal by making an older Dora for tweens. They are doing this by creating a pre-pubescent Dora that the older crowd would find more appealing.
Guess What I've Been Up To
I spent yesterday and today at home with the baby. Mama WOWO went back to work, and so there was some lag time between her return and the arrival of family help. So I became the Stay-At-Home dad.
According to this segment of the conversation in the video above, the economy is creating lots of Stay-At-Home dads. Banking, housing, and automobiles are industries which have a skewed gender ratio in favor of men, and because these industries have been hit the hardest, a large majority of the recently laid-off happen to be men–82% according to the Times segment. Without these jobs, more and more men have left the job market and have now taken on roles as house-husbands. It’s a complete reversal of the traditional gender roles, which is what the two bloggers in the video above are discussing. Who would’ve ever thought that the economy could help fight sexism?
