I had an interesting experience a couple of weeks ago when my dad sent around an email that a classmate had made and posted on youtube. First of all, it's a testament to the interwebs that a seventy-something Chinese guy can sit down and make a technically pretty good youtube video. Nothing fancy but definitely more work than "My grandkids at the ( Read more... )

Today, we in Hawai'i woke up to the news that Aloha Airlines cargo division which was slated to keep flying despite the abrupt cessation of operations in its passenger services, has also closed its doors. With no warning. With no comment on future operations or lack thereof ( Read more... )

Just stopped at Safeway to get a couple of things (literally ( Read more... )

SHAME on the MSM YET AGAIN.

One in TEN houses in parts of Cleveland is abandoned or foreclosed thanks to the sub-prime mortgage fiasco.

I had to go on the BBC to find out about this story. There's an excellent set of stories available on the VoA website as well link hereSO where was the Business As Usual Media on this issue while the primary was ( Read more... )

About two years ago (or so it seems), your humble servant instituted The Dragon of Retribution Tong which was supposed to school the flat yellow butts of Asian collaborators with the Man (tm ( Read more... )

Hey everyone. If you listen to NPR you'll have heard the news: Aloha Airlines is going out of business. Well, actually, they'll still be flying freight but they've lost the fare war that Mesa's zombie proxy Go! started and are now in chapter 11 ( Read more... )

OK I have to do a bit of a core dump here since there are a couple of things that have been simmering for a while that have been just stunningly atrocious.

The first thing is the ongoing situation with the Dunbar Village rape case. There has been a lot of excellent and impassioned coverage in other people's blogs particularly djeannot, skywardprodigal and parlance so I won't ( Read more... )

A couple of interesting news items from Australia ( Read more... )

I don't think it will be news to anyone who knows me that this latest op-ed peice by Joan Walsh at Salon in which she discusses "Asian" support for Hillary Rodham Clinton is somewhat frustrating ( Read more... )

Hi everyone ( Read more... )