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Last Chance to Enjoy These Sexy Eyeballs
For the last several months, I’ve been enjoying the Lasik, which Jameelah and I both got on a whim while in Vietnam. That’s right, we passed by an eye hospital, saw the sign that
Read More »Share the Love With Your Community Media
Media is an under appreciated industry. Yes, mainstream media gets a bad rap now and then — sensationalizing serious matters and trivializing people’s lives and opinions into ‘news’. But community media is not that
Read More »25 Years Later: Reflecting on the Landmark Hirabayashi/Korematsu Case
The Hirabayashi “coram nobis” case is a landmark civil rights case which exposed the racial prejudice of government officials in promulgating military orders which led to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War
Read More »Why I’m No Longer Watching Law and Order, Criminal Minds, Bones, CSI, NCIS, Cold Case, or Other Crime Procedurals
The main purpose of TV, I would say, is to help us escape from our daily lives. I come home exhausted after hours of telling people what to do and taking credit for their
Read More »Dreams with No Boundaries
(I’m often asked to share a personal story in my editorials. Here’s one I remember fondly.) I had to make one hundred basketball shots a day the summer after I turned 13. It was
Read More »Vietnamese Culture Series: The Origin of Tet
Once upon a time, there was a peaceful little Chinese village called Peach Blossom (aww!). The villagers were humble and hardworking. They spent their days farming their fields and when they got home, they
Read More »Happy New Year
In the fall, I was featured on the popular blog, 8Asians (www.8asians.com). Among the interview questions, they asked: “What’s your personal motto?” I had never thought about that so I had none. But, I
Read More »Forgetting the Iraq War
When Americans came back from defeating the Germans after World War II, there were ticker-tape parades. When the last U.S. helicopter lifted off from Saigon, Vietnam on April 30, 1975, the image seared deep
Read More »Stop Closing the Doors on the Community
The turnaround in our local economy that we all wished for in 2011 didn’t occur. If you’re like me, you’re apprehensive about 2012. Cuts to federal, state and city government budgets seem to continually
Read More »Where Do Asians Draw the Line at Derogatory Roles?
If you haven’t been following the web blog, You Offend Me You Offend My Family crew ( www.youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com ), then there’s a small storm of controversy brewing over an article written by Sung Kang
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