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 2010
Killaoke Karaoke
Karaoke in the Philippines
This was is currently the most popular article on NYTimes.com: Sinatra Strong Often Strikes Deadly Chord. Let this serve as a public service announcement: if you’re in the Philippines, don’t sing Sinatra’s “My Way.” It could turn deadly if someone is violent and ready. (I think that rhyme is from a Jin The MC song…don’t know if they have that at karaoke.) This propensity for violence has caused some karaoke bars to remove the song from their playlist.
I don’t know; I’ve always thought of karaoke as being a peaceful activity. Evidently it’s serious business in some parts of the world.
Superbowl 44: Saints win!
What happened during that second half? I was cheering for the Saints, but I figured they were going to get blown out. I left for a dinner engagement after the second half when the Colts were winning 10-3, and then I find out that the Saints blew out the Colts. Wow. I missed an exciting second half.
Check out Scott Fujita above. He’s one the Saints’s linebackers. He’s a White guy with the last name “Fujita.” His story is that he was adopted by a Japanese American father and Caucasian American mother, but he was raised Japanese. See some of the story here. His father was born in an internment camp, and his grandfather fought for the 442nd.
Chael "Boring" Sonnen at UFC 109
Conversation at the bar where they were showing the UFC 109 match between Chael Sonnen and Nate Marquardt:
jaehwan: Go Marquardt! Get up! What are you doing?
old guy: Why are you cheering for Marquardt? Sonnen is from West Linn.
jaehwan: Sonnen is a Republican who was talking smack against Democrats when he was in UFC.
old guy: What? In that case, f#$k Chael Sonnen! Go Marquardt! Beat his a$$!
Sports and Morality
I was almost going to write and say that I beat David Brooks to the punch. He published an article entitled The Sporting Mind a few days ago, and I was going to write to say that I said that sports and morality were related, and that I said it before David Brooks did. As it turns out though, we said quite different things. I said that maybe athletes could develop morals because of the emphasis on fair play (this came out of the “Talent” post), while Brooks said, or agreed with the statement, that sports organizes the moral thinking of young Americans.
Nakata in Calvin Klein Ad
Hidetoshi Nakata
Thanks to Julie for this.
Hey Siegfried, here’s some eye candy for you.
Seriously, I think it’s great that Calvin Klein is diversifying their portfolio of models. I saw Nakata when he first started playing. When I was in Japan, he was the #1 guy on the soccer team. My roommate was a British dude who played soccer, and he idolized Nakata.
Mixed Martial Arts for Christ
Was Jesus Christ a grappler or a striker?
(above link from Jesus ROI. Great site, btw.)
A while back, I blogged about how pastors in Brazil were using Brazilian Jujitsu to pull people into the their church services. It didn’t surprise me. Back when I was a young student in Sunday school, they used pop music to pull us in. They would rewrite secular music with “Lord is my Savior” lyrics, and they would get us to sing these new Jesus-focused songs. I remember bringing up copyright issues, and our teacher assured me that it was okay for two reasons: non-Christians did the same thing with Christian music (I hadn’t heard of this happening, but I took his word for it) and there was nothing under heaven that didn’t already belong to God.
Ambition and Power
Jobs (l) and Wozniak (r)
Time has an interesting article on the web: Ambition: Why Some People are Most Likely to Succeed. In the article, it talks about genetic vs. circumstantial influences that might cause some people to have ambition, while others have less. One example they brought up was Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, who was fired from his company, and then came back to the helm where he currently sits, making Apple cooler and more creative by the day. Steve Wozniak, another co-founder of Apple, on the other hand, pretty much disappeared from public view after retiring as a multimillionaire at the age of 34. What makes some people ambitious? What makes others shun ambition?
