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‘Yellow Peril’ Helps Clinton Sink Obama in Pennsylvania
Is that so bad?
Clinton = fighter, Obama = wimp.
That was the conclusion of one disgusted Obama supporter in a post-Pennsylvania primary e-mail to me with the subject line, “Obama has to fight back, or he doesn’t deserve it.” -
An Asian Texan History?: How now, cowboy?
I’m a Texan through and through.
I was born in Bryan, Texas, at the only hospital in Bryan-College Station. I was immediately labeled “white” on my birth certificate. In high school, I became black, and later I became yet other things (the inspiration for my story collection, How I Became a Black Man and Other […] -
Asian Am. Studies Conference in Chicago
The 25th annual Association for Asian American Studies Conference held in Chicago last week had workshops, panel discussions, literary readings, neighborhood tours, banquets — and an earthquake.
Like previous AAAS conferences, this one provided opportunities for out-of-towners to get out and see the local APA community. The Chinatown -
No Jobs for Us: Our reality of the recession
Gen. Y Perspective
Every few months, I get this crazy urge at around one in the morning to jump onto Craigslist and look for another job. This urge is motivated by the voice in my head screaming, “I need to move out of my parents’ house! I need money!” But after an hour or so, the […]
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Pork Lovin’ Asians
Pork barrel” politics, patronage, political favoritism, earmarks — whatever you choose to call these line-item funding projects, they are as much an American tradition as our democratic electoral process.
Congressional politicians add on billions of dollars in special interest projects every year without a hearing, without legislative authorization and -
Congressional Spending on Asian Americans
Waste is in the eyes of the fiscal watchdog. Citizens Against Government Waste’s 2008 Congressional Pig Book Summary (cagw.org) rips into 11,610 “pork barrel” projects worth $17.2 billion in the 2008-09 fiscal year. … Some prominent APA legislators topped the lists, including the two octogenarian Dans — Hawai‘i Sens. Daniel Inouye (ranked sixth among 100
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Rice, Rice Everywhere
It was only about 7,000 years ago that our ancestors invented ways to domesticate animals and grow grains and fruits, thus changing life on earth, at least for humans, from nomadic hunting and gathering to a more sedentary lifestyle. The plow and the alluvial fields between the Tigris and the Euphrates yielded the earliest known […]
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Asian Nights: 04/25/08
Friday, April 25
Genesis Fridays: ‘The Explosive Finale’
Details: Rouge Nightclub,
1500 Broadway St., San Francisco,
10 p.m.–2 a.m., 21+
Music: Hip-hop
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Damnocrat: Disagreeing on Politics
Dear Q,
My boyfriend and I disagree on politics. It’s the only issue that we have consistently argued about during our eight-year relationship.
I’m a white guy, and he’s a Republican, assimilated Chinese American. I find it despicable that he would vote for that party, no matter the candidate — and with this election, he’s become even […] -
Yune Never Know
Rick Yune Dropped From ‘Street Fighter’
After weeks of rumors that Snow Falling on Cedars’ Rick Yune would be playing Gen in the upcoming Street Fighter movie, it’s been debunked. A blogger keeping tabs on the production revealed that Gen will actually be played by someone else from video game movie history: Robin Shou, who -
AsianWeek Hot Shots: 04/25/08
Hot Shots features a photo profile of cute guys and gals of the Asian Pacific American community.
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eng: today Ms. Steinem dismissed your convention “bombshell” as merely an “older” Phyllis Schafly? Actuially, doesn’t she “look” and sound more like an arguably “prettier” Tonya Harding? Who, obviously, doesn’t need to hire goons but can manage quite well on her own, a true duck-blind mate for someone like Dick Cheney? awarthurhu: Boy does McCain give a dull speech, but Sarah Barracuda packed them in with a BIGGER tv audience than the almighty Obama.
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Again, I'm Chinese, not Vietnamese, and wasn't athletic enough to hack the military academies that I did apply for.
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Frank Eng on Obama: A Cliche is a Terrible Thing to Waste
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