No Redemption for Bill Richardson
January 1, 2009
Don’t forget him: Wen Ho Lee is 2008’s person of the year
I know, Lee made news back in 1999. But people forget, and they need to remember. That’s especially true now that Lee’s main tormentor, Bill Richardson — the former energy secretary under Clinton and now Read more
Christmas Dog
December 25, 2008
No, I didn’t eat one for Christmas dinner.
But this year, it was a dog sitting on my lap who gave me my first real sense of Christmas. It was a quiet moment when a simple living being just looked up at me, and all seemed right with the season. Read more
Stocking Stuffer
December 18, 2008
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…
With the Federal Reserve cutting bank lending rates to near zero, and “safe” T-bills yielding near zero returns for consumers, let me be the first to welcome you to the new Zero World. It even comes with its own salutation of the season: Happy Zero Christmas! Read more
In an Administration of Firsts, APA Firsts
December 11, 2008
But will the IL scandal and Candidate ‘5’ put a snag in the appointment of the first APA woman to the Senate?
You may be smirking about this week’s political scandal involving Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (that’s Bla-GOYA-vitch for all you phonetically inclined). Read more
A Slap in Our Face: We can’t forget what Richardson did to Wen Ho Lee
December 4, 2008
Also Read: Commerce Secretary Appointment Draws Ire From Asian Americans
Wen Ho Lee is as close as it gets in contemporary Asian Pacific American history to a mythic victim of racism in our nation. Read more
Of Hot Turkey Sex, Bush and Obama
November 27, 2008
Is change coming to your Thanksgiving table and to the White House?
All this talk about change these days. This year, is there going to be a change at your Thanksgiving meal? Read more
What’s Next for Yahoo’s Yang?
November 20, 2008
My penance for Jerry after his self-layoff
To bastardize the Bard, I am neither here to praise nor to bury Jerry Yang, now officially to be the ex-CEO of Yahoo and the one-time Supreme conqueror of the Universe we know as the Internet.
Yang was a bonafide www.w: a World-Wide-Web winner. But when he announced his departure this week from the helm of the fading Yahoo (once he finds a replacement), he left more than enough Read more
Colorless Obama: Ushering in the post-Affirmative Action era
November 13, 2008
In the office of a non-profit youth activist in San Francisco’s Chinatown, a large front-page newspaper declaring Barack Obama’s victory hung on the wall as her homage to history. “He’s the poster boy for affirmative action,” she said.
Or more appropriately, the glorious end of its mischaracterization. Always misunderstood and maligned for being some kind of boost to the undeserving, affirmative action was ultimately affirmed by Obama and the Read more
Obama’s New America
November 6, 2008
And the same old, same old
American voters saw a black man walking toward them on the street and did not put their heads down or turn the other way. They joined him, made him their leader and followed him forward into history.
This is the New America of Barack Obama. And it’s about time. The historical references to slavery and Dr. Read more
OK-KK Racism
October 30, 2008
It’s not the KKK-kind of racism we have to worry about on Election Day
Soon Campaign 2008 will be over. And if we don’t get the president we want (or deserve) at the end of this long, knock-down-drag-out affair, at the very least we’ll have a new barometer reading for race in this country. Read more
Just Say No: A God-fearing approach to California’s Proposition 8
October 23, 2008
I no more believe that marriage should be only between a man and a woman than I believe the world is flat.
It’s definitely not, even if you live in hilly parts of San Francisco’s Sunset District.
But try telling that to the supporters of California’s Proposition 8, the last-gasp attempt to codify a discriminatory definition of marriage into the California Constitution. Read more
Daily Dose: 10/21/08
October 21, 2008
» Asian Market Report
» Asian Suicide Rates Steady Compared to Peers
» Attorney Says Kazuyoshi Miura Was Killed in L.A. Jail
» Joseph Tang Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
» Citizen Application Workshop
» Wu Yee Social for Children’s Services
» Anthony Soohoo, CBS Interactive Launches ‘Social Viewing Rooms’
» ‘Part Asian, 100% Hapa’
» Tokyo 2016 Invites Asian Olympic Family to Unite Around its Vision
» Tendulkar’s Day at Mohali
» Asian Entrepreneurs Offered Better Access to Bay Area’s Capital Pool
» Dr. Edmund Kwan Offers Pro Bono Services in Honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month
» India Joins Asia Space Race in First Moon Mission
» Former Thai Leader Found Guilty of Corruption