There’s a hard way and an easy way.
And in the end Goodwin Liu took the easy way.
Who could blame him after the nearly two years of being a political football in Washington?
Today, Liu, the embattled yet eminently well-qualified Asian American legal scholar who couldn’t get a fair shake at the U.
This week began with rebels taking Tripoli. From the sound of it, President Obama loves a revolution:
“Your courage and character have been unbreakable in the face of a tyrant,” Obama said to the Libyan people on Monday. “An ocean divides us, but we are joined in the basic human longing for freedom
David Chiu, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, is in New York Friday to seek funds for his San Francisco mayoral run.
I’m actually surprised he’s doing it.
He’s already raised more money than any other candidate to date by far.
Maybe he’s just getting in sync with being a career
If you’re depressed over the debt downgrade from Standard & Poor’s, relax.
America needn’t act like an Asian American student who got her first B in math.
You still got into Brown, right? See, it’s not even that bad. And you’re still great in violin AND piano.
Time for a little perspective.
Keep
After the debt ceiling deal was announced, I kept thinking about a phrase that is said about Asian Americans, a minority in every sense of the national political calculus, especially after our concerns aren’t addressed.
That phrase: “Where are they going to go?”
So after the deal was announced, I
Asian Americans as a group are known both for their political anonymity and scarcity. So anyone who can claim to be the first Chinese American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives is a big deal.
Someone should have told that to David Wu.
Maybe he could have hit on Tiger Mom and not her ki
Rupert Murdoch’s in a fog.
These days, at least from his testimony, the guy can’t tell the difference between a phone hack and a hack writer.
But we do know for some time now he’s been suffering from a kind of Deng-y fever. That would be Deng-y as in Wendi Deng, the 80-year-old tycoon’s wife of tw
To this day, affirmative action as public policy–giving qualified minorities a chance to compete for college admissions, public jobs, and contracts–is not just a sentimental throwback. It remains the noble, magnanimous, and right thing to do.
But in a time with 14 million unemployed, few jobs in ge
As I set off my Chinese fireworks on the Fourth of July, thinking about freedom and independence and what it means to be American, I also had Jose Antonio Vargas on my mind.
I hope he was celebrating the freedom of the truth with some vigor.
Just over two weeks ago, Vargas, 30, set off some firewo
My 14-year-old daughter marched with the PETA float in San Francisco’s Pride parade Sunday, wearing a “Vegan Pride T-shirt” and passing out stickers and pamphlets to the thousands of onlookers.
Not all of them were gay, of course. But most were and it had a real impact on my daughter.
“Boy, there
President Obama seems intent on stretching the limits of our Orwellian disbelief. So here comes the $1 billion dollar question ($1 billion being the projected cost by September this year for whatever it is we’re doing in Libya): Are we at war in that country or not?
The official answer: Drones aren
I’ve got my call into Ronald Madis Ebens. I’ve found him, heard his voice, and left my message on his answering machine. And when he calls me back, maybe he’ll say something to make us all feel better.
I’m not holding my breath.
It will be 29 years on June 19th. On that day in 1982, Ebens, a then
Scott Pelley begins his tenure this week as the anchor of the show that bears his name, “The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.” But I’m wondering, what if his name were Scott Pellicito or Scott Pelley Woo?
I do congratulate Scott on his new role and wish him well. In fact, he’s an old colleague f
If only Shaquille O’Neal could have announced his retirement during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May. Then we could have really ended the month with a bang!
O’Neal is in all likelihood the biggest perpetrator of an Asian American slur in the history of American pop culture.
Find someon
Whooping cranes are endangered, but there are still more of them than there are federal judges of Asian American descent, of which there are just fourteen.
Asian Americans, 17 million strong and five percent of the U.S. population, aren’t merely woefully under-represented in the federal judiciary,
The month of May is more than half over, and if you haven’t boisterously greeted the next available warm body (of whatever sex, race or ethnic origin) with a loud and celebratory “Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month,” what’s your problem?
This is our month. By law (Section 102, Title 36 of
As we pick up the pieces, here’s a sense of life inside Casa Osama.
If you’re a guy, you’d have been doing his dirty work—tending the goats.
If you’re a woman, you’d be lucky to be one of his four allotted wives giving him his oat extract aphrodisiac. Yum.
You’d also know that bin Laden was inter
When you’re told to stand by for breaking news from the White House on a Sunday night, you know you’re not about to get a standard garden-variety press release.
What could possibly interrupt a night reserved for watching America’s masterpiece theatre–that conniving Star Jones on Trump’s “Celebrity
Without doubt, the Tyler Clementi story is a tragic one. The Rutgers University student committed suicide last year, plunging to his death from the George Washington Bridge. It was just days after his roommate allegedly displayed live video on the internet of Clementi romantically engaged with anoth
In recent years, Southeast Asian families in Minnesota and California were bombarded by this come-on: Win two free tickets to Laos.
Not Disneyland. Not DisneyWorld. Laos. The homeland. Let’s go!
The catch? Just refinance your home with a new variable rate, interest only loan—the kind of loan that
