The Conversation
- Jeremy Lin: Our Generation’s Joe Louis (12)
- N: @mojo Completely agree with the religion issue. Did you see how dirty Blake was when he was defending Lin. Fisher...
- Blacklisted: B, “Jeremy Lin is the Joe Louis of our time. I remember reading the Autobiography of Malcolm X,...
- Mojo Rider: This is just awesome….I watched the game too and wasn’t sure if he was going to score 20...
- “But he hit me back first!” (46)
- jstele: I’m not aware of black owned businesses for the most part contributing to the community. I know that...
- jstele: Right, just like you didn’t bother to look up the law before saying that you didn’t think that shopowner who...
- King: I will be kissing Asian women like Linda against the wall without a shirt”. Yuck!!!
- Amy Chua: Chinese Conceit, Chinese Ignorance, and the $24,000 question (247)
- bigWOWO: Not sure if you’re a “bot” or a real person, Andre, but I know lots of Chuas. Only...
- Andre M. Smith: Further on Chua as a Chinese surname . . . My wife, a gyn surgeon, hails from a family of...
- Seeking Asian Female (8)
- Raguel: Yes! I mean with me. How did I miss that part out? And why do I suddenly feel some anxiety?
But here is an... - 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: Yes! I mean with me. How did I miss that part out? And why do I suddenly feel some anxiety?
- The Other-Directed Personality (1)
- Siegfried: Mitt got Obama worried. He is shaking in his boots. It’s over for Obama because Mitt is going to...
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (9)
- N: @TD Good pick up on that one.
- trolldetector: @Colin I love how whites keep trying to troll their divide tactics Asian blogs under different guises.
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Colin: I’m pretty sure Jeremy Lin and his supporters are not the same person.
- Jeremy Lin shines (21)
- trolldetector: GO JEREMY LIN
- 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...
- What Cultures Value (22)
- trolldetector: @Colin. Dont you belong on a Lord Of The Rings filmset? Thats where most white trolls dwell isnt it?
- colin: A bit late to this, but bigwowo, you grossly underestimate the anti-work and anti-intellectual ethic here in...
- bigWOWO: Yeah, I could go for that.
- 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
- 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)
- Tommy: I think I’m coming here more for Moro’s comments than BigWoWO’s posts.
- “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...
- Jeremy Lin: Our Generation’s Joe Louis (12)
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Life Without Fear
This is an old concept, even older than FDR who told us that we had nothing to fear but fear itself. In my last post, I talked about two men who run a billion dollar corporation, one of whom asked, “What would your life be like if you could eliminate the fear of failure, and where would you be at this point in life?” Fear and doubt go hand in hand. I’ve met so many people who don’t want to do anything because they fear failure, and I’ve met so many others who define their world by what they and others can’t do. Can’t and fear are both four letter words.
Disinterest Reticence Dispassion
(pic from here)
Brooks wrote a column in the NY Times yesterday about the “dignity code” and how it’s been obliterated. He describes the dignity code as follows:
The dignity code commanded its followers to be disinterested — to endeavor to put national interests above personal interests. It commanded its followers to be reticent — to never degrade intimate emotions by parading them in public. It also commanded its followers to be dispassionate — to distrust rashness, zealotry, fury and political enthusiasm.
He then talks about the forces that have killed it.
Google to Make Operating System
Let the fight begin. If I were Microsoft, I’d be shaking in my boots. True, others have gone against Windows before. But this is Google, a company with cash, outreach, brand recognition, smarts, and the desire to take over the world.
Update: New article out today. I also agree with the NY Times editorial.
I do like the idea of keeping stuff on a computer rather than everything over the web. I almost never use Google Docs. Hopefully there will be a compromise.
Podcast: Sam Yoon, Candidate for Mayor of Boston
Sam Yoon and Family
Today I had a podcast with Sam Yoon, Candidate for Mayor of Boston. Intern Sagar Sane, who made all the arrangements for the podcast and who is helping with internet publicity, was also present. The podcast is 46 minutes and 13 seconds long. For those who are following my ridiculous ongoing battle to get GarageBand ’08 to import large files directly to mp3, this time I WON, and the podcast is a sleek and slim 21.2 megs. Download it here, or listen to it here:
Posted in Activism, parenting, Podcasts, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Asian American, Boston, mayor, Politics, Sagar Sane, Sam Yoon, Yul Kwon
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Rice Chaser Rapist Kills Himself
Just saw this on AAM. I remember last year when they were looking for this guy. He would sneak into garages, take money from Asian women, and then sexually assault them. He even attacked a woman who had her 18 month old child with her. During his last attempt, he tried to sexually assault the woman in the interview above, who happens to be a marathon runner. (This woman is white.) She “freaked out,” fought him off, chased him down, and cops arrested him. Props to her. The rice chaser coward then hanged himself in his prison cell.
China's Green Power
Apparently China is way ahead of the United States in implementing green power. Many of the changes taking place now in our federal government have already been enacted in China, and China is poised to be the #1 market in wind turbines this year. Solar energy is exploding as well. With little Bush’s disdain for the environment, it doesn’t surprise me.
We’ve got some catching up to do. I wonder why no one has proposed that places like Las Vegas and Phoenix don’t try to specialize in green power. Quoting a Chinese official:
Chinese guy pays $2.11 million for lunch with Warren Buffett
Zhao Danyang
Zhao Danyang, a hedge fund manager in Hong Kong, paid $2.11 million for a lunch with Warren Buffett. For that big price tag, he got to bring seven of his close friends and family. It’s all for a good cause–proceeds go to the Glide Foundation, which benefits homeless and poor people in San Francisco. But $2.11 million? I’m glad someone is doing well in this economy. Evidently, Zhao really is: his fund has had a 600% return over six years, which is much better than what my portfolio has done in the same period. Hell, that’s better than what Buffett’s portfolio has done.
Holden Caulfield shows his age
I don’t have time for a real Fathers Day post, so this will have to do for now.
I saw this interesting article this morning about the Catcher in the Rye. The gist of the article is that kids these days don’t admire the main character Holden Caulfield. They see him as a lazy slacker, and in the words quoted by the article, ““weird,” “whiny” and “immature.”” One teacher sums it up well:
Ajay Bhatt: Engineering Rock Star
I need to apologize to CBS. In a previous post, when describing how CBS is beating the $%^ out of NBC in programming, I tempered my words by saying that NBC had a good backlist. I stand by those words–I’ll always be an original Knight Rider fan. However, CBS has an even better backlist. A much better backlist, in fact. They’ve got the original Twilight Zone and original Star Trek. Nothing beats that. You put an endless supply of beer in the room and plop me in front of a TV playing a Twilight Zone marathon, and I’m good for life.
By, About, and For Rice Chasers
Someone posted this on Facebook.
I’ll admit I didn’t read the whole article. I skimmed the first page, and the only thing that caught my eye was this:
As far as I can boil it down, Bernstein wishes to argue that the history of liaisons between Eastern women and Western men should not be condemned out of hand. In spite of the undeniable backdrop of injustice and exploitation, some of these encounters have been a Good Thing, offering to the men a reprieve from the repressive sexual morality of the Christian West and to the women a chance at a less traditionally patriarchal relationship than they might have had with many of their countrymen. There may be manifest inequities between these couples, but their trysts have sometimes blossomed into real affection, tenderness and love.
