Hipsters are so hip, but apparently they are not too hip for racism.
How else can anyone explain the blatant racial slur on the May 25 episode of “Maron” on IFC, the Independent Film Channel?
Just so you don’t think I’m some cranky PC pundit out to get your favorite low-rated cable show, let’s mak
My 17-year-old daughter came into the living room the other night while I watched HBO’s “Behind the Candelabra,” the Liberace biopic based on the tell-all book by his chauffeur/lover/victim/plaintiff Scott Thorson.
“What are you watching?” my daughter asked.
“A movie about Liberace,” I told her. “
In the immigration vote this week, the new political pecking order was laid out in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Corporations, si. (Especially the hi-tech ones like Facebook and Friends, and all their lobbyists.)
Families, no. (Not if you want to petition for an older married child or a brother
This just in–well, not really, but you may not have heard it in the news since it has nothing to do with the IRS, the AP, Benghazi, or Angelina Jolie’s voluntary double mastectomy.
A bipartisan group in the House revealed late on May 16 that it has reached an immigration deal in principle. Aides to
In case it slipped your mind, it’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Come on, get AAPI!
If you’re non-Asian, let’s hope someone of Asian descent goes amok and greets you in an atypically loud, outlandish, and celebratory way. Sort of like Norm Mineta planting a wet one on Joe Bid
I’ve given funny, satirical speeches before. And while a steady stream of laughs is the objective, it’s like baseball. Stringing together some titters and chortles is like bunting your way to victory. It helps if you can hit a few home runs, too.
In comedy, the home run is the laugh that goes ten s
This was the dark-skinned suspect that turned the world upside down last week.
As the media takes its time to catch its breath after the coverage of the Boston blasts, it’s interesting to review how race played a major part in coverage from the very beginning.
I mean, really, how did we get that
The sweeping new Senate immigration bill finally unveiled this week was delayed because of the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15.
But because Boston is on everyone’s minds, it’s unlikely anything will happen to it for awhile.
So let’s begin by remembering Chinese grad student Lu Lingzi,
If you have ever wondered why “No.1” in newspapers is spelled that way instead of “#1,” or “Number 1,” or “Number One,” well, that’s AP style.
And the No.1 reason it exists is to enable the Associated Press’s cookie-cutter approach in the dissemination of news copy to multiple outlets worldwide all
If you relied on an e-mail notification on your admission to college last week, you may or may not have been accepted–or rejected–by the college of your choice.
A faulty e-mailing program is being blamed for thousands of e-mails sent to people in the University of California system and other nation
With snow in Washington, the “Deck the Halls” phrase, “Don we now our gay apparel,” comes to mind.
It’s 2013 and already we’ve seen a former detractor, GOP Senator Rob Portman, persuaded to come out for same-sex marriage in support of his gay son. We’ve even heard Republican political strategist Ka
Waiting for the Supreme Court ruling in Fisher? Forget it. The fix is in. Affirmative Action for Whites is coming as more colleges use class to trump race in college admissions.
Didn’t you read the front page of the New York Times on Sunday?
The right column front is always where editors place “th
Shucks. There’s no ban on over-sized sugary soda in New York after all.
But that’s OK.
I ban soda all on my own. I don’t drink soda anymore. Not through these lips. When I have to slake a thirst, I keep it simple.
Water, please.
It’s normally free of calories, sugar, or sweeteners.
But is it cl
Last week’s SCOTUS hearing on the Voting Rights Act provided us with yet another reminder about an important factor to consider in voting for president: the quality of Supreme Court justices our top office holder is likely to appoint.
Presidents, after all, max out after two four-year terms, while
As we go into Oscar weekend, the favorite for Best Picture seems to have cheering agents in everyone’s medicine cabinet.
They have scary medicinal names like amoxapine and ariprazole, but are better known by their patented brands like Asendin and Abilify–names that, like the drugs, are intended to
For Asian Americans, the best thing about the 2013 State of the Union may have been that outgoing Energy Secretary Steven Chu was given a somewhat left-handed parting gift by the president, who named Nobel Laureate Chu “designated survivor.” He was the smartest man not in the room. What a way to pad
If you just got the invite to that racist Asian-themed party last week at Duke University (I know it was in your spam box), don’t worry. You didn’t miss anything. It was the same old racist fare, standard ching-chong stuff–people dressed in sumo gear and rice paddy hats and showing off their racist
Immigration advocate and AALDEF 2013 Justice in Action award honoree Jose Antonio Vargas tweeted from the Super Bowl: “Can’t find an electrical socket to charge iPhone here at Superdome! More tweet soon.”
I tweeted back: “No wait, you’ll blow a fuse!”
It was that kind of game.
Nothing quite worke
At the Fred T. Korematsu Day celebration in San Francisco on Sunday, most of the honorees had passed on and were represented by their scions.
But I managed to sit next to one of the originals, 98-year-old Mabel Fong.
If you’re Asian American, you likely know Korematsu — the man who fought the U.S.
The mug of my first cup of coffee on this day reads “Ebenezer Baptist Church–where the dream began.”
I got it while in Atlanta recently when I visited Dr. King’s church and the eternal flame that marks his gravesite.
So now I can say, it’s 49 years after the Civil Rights Act, and all I’ve got is t
