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- Scapegoating our own (13)
- King: ^Yeah, but so did Obama 4 years ago. It’s inconsistent to think that Obama can have an arch of decision...
- 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.
- 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 (13)
Category Archives: Citizenship
Clarence Thomas’s Conservative Activist Wife
Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia
Interesting article in the NY Times about Clarence Thomas’s wife and her activism for the far right Tea Party/Conservative movement. Here you have a guy sitting on the highest bench, a guy who is supposed to be judging based on the Constitution, and his wife is raising money for a highly partisan cause:
Mrs. Thomas is the founder and head of a new nonprofit group, Liberty Central, dedicated to opposing what she characterizes as the leftist “tyranny” of President Obama and Democrats in Congress and to “protecting the core founding principles” of the nation.
Posted in Activism, Citizenship, News
Tagged Clarence Thomas, conflict of interest, Tea Party, Virginia Thomas
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Holding Out or Holding Up?
There’s a great article here about three generations of an American family and the differences in the economy between then and now. The grandfather is a WWII veteran turned stock broker who became wealthy through connections and tenacity, and the father is a general manager in manufacturing who maintained the family wealth through connections and tenacity. The first grandson graduated a few years back before the recession and now makes $75k a year in finance. The second grandson Scott, however, is the subject of the story.
Democratic Capitalism vs. State Capitalism
David Brooks has an interesting article here about the difference between democratic capitalism vs. state capitalism. He focuses on the oil industry. American/European companies like BP and Exxon Mobil work under democratic capitalism and compete in a relatively free market, while state-run energy companies like Petrobras and Gazprom work under state capitalism. The difference in practice is that state run companies become an arm of the government for political aggrandizement, while privately and publicly owned companies serve the interests of shareholders.
Thieves who cheat the mortgage banks
Two thieves and their dog
If you sign a document saying that you agree to pay a debt, and the bank agrees to give you the money in order to pay that debt while using your home as collateral, and then you suddenly walk away from that obligation and refuse to pay, who is in the wrong?
Well, according to the people profiled in this article, the bank is in the wrong. Why? Well because people have a right to eat out, gamble, and take their boat out for a spin.
Born Rich
If you have time to watch an entire movie online, check out the movie “Born Rich.” (above, or link here). It’s relevant to my last post about money or love. The documentary was made by Jamie Johnson, an heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune. The filmmaker poses the question of what one does with one’s life when one doesn’t have to work. He interviews the children of truly wealthy people to learn about how they view their inherited fortunes. His interviewees include Ivanka Trump (Trump), Josiah Hornblower (Vanderbilt family), Georgina Bloomberg (Bloomberg), Luke Weil (Autotote Gaming), etc.
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Tagged family, Ivanka Trump, Jamie Johnson, Josiah Hornblower, money
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Money or Love?
This is one of those topics that I’ve been thinking about to the point that all my thoughts are garbled.
David Brooks wrote this column last week, writing about Sandra Bullock, who won an Academy Award and very soon after found out that her husband Jesse James was cheating on her. The question, as Brooks poses it, is this:
“Would you exchange a tremendous professional triumph for a severe personal blow?”
Getting Schooled by Overpriced Schooling
Thank you, NY Times, for publishing this: In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt.
Yup, you’ve seen them before–the advertisements for ITT Tech and Western Culinary Institute (apparently now doing business as Le Cordon Bleu). I’d always wondered about those. At most companies where I’ve worked, there was usually a tech department. However, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of any of our tech guys coming from ITT Tech. Nor have I heard of chefs becoming Jamie Oliver or Kylie Kwong after studying at Western Culinary Institute. Nor have I heard of guys maintaining relationships with what I would consider to be desirable women after taking a pickup class. People think they can pay money to become what they want to be, and schools encourage this thinking with dishonest marketing. What these poor students usually get from these trade schools, according to the article, are big school loans with no career benefits.
Write in "Taiwanese"
The video above is encouraging Taiwanese Americans to check the “other” box on the U.S. Census and to write in “Taiwanese.” In other words, don’t check the “Chinese” box, but rather write in “Taiwanese.”
I’ve found that the best way to make yourself unpopular is to discuss Chinese and Taiwanese politics. Don’t do it. Don’t ever ever do it. Sure, rail against rice chasers who poison our communities. Rail against the angry Asian men who oppress Asian women and supposedly bind their feet. But do not…DO NOT discuss Chinese and Taiwanese politics. When you’re in a room full of Chinese and Taiwanese people, the two worst moves you can make is:
Down and Out in the Great Recession
David Brooks wrote an excellent column for the NY Times: The Lean Years. In his essay, he writes about how men have been disproportionately affected by the recession, and how people who come to working age during bad economic times usually sustain permanent damage to their earning capacity over a lifetime. Brooks’s column links to another excellent article, this time from the Atlantic: How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America.
