Although my brothers and I were born of Chinese parents in the Philippines, the three of us emigrated to the United States, separately and for totally different reasons, when we were all in our mid-twenties. It was in the United States where we all established our professional careers; where John and Peter met the wonderful women they…
Sordid news about self-righteous Republicans who cannot seem to keep their dicks private, or their privates out of the public forum, just keep increasing and multiplying. Strom Thurmond, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, John Ensign, Mark Sanford, and now Michael Duvall. If you’d like to see a complete list dating all the way back to…
A new center for international students at the University of Wyoming in Laramie is being named after former Vice President Dick Cheney. Did the international students on that campus have any say about this? By the way, isn’t this where Matthew Shepard went to school before he was tortured and left to die on that…
So who are these parents who claim to be deeply concerned about what the President of the United States might have to say to their children in his start-of-school motivational speech to the nation’s students? Are these parents as deeply concerned about the lyrics of the songs their children are listening to on their ipods? The websites they’re visiting…
I’m so out of it. I just found out that the word “blog” is short for “weblog.” Now, if only someone will tell me why, suddenly, there are all these nice young people who keep asking me to have an evening meal with them . “Sup?” “What?” “Sup?” “Do I know you?” “Sup?” “It’s very nice of you…
Some friends who’ve been journeying through time with me, after looking at the many pictures of ourselves which I’ve posted chronologically on my website, seem startled and dismayed by how we’ve all aged. “My God,” one of them exclaimed the other day, “we were all so young and…” He paused for a long time and, as he…
After all the votes are counted, if the new president of Afghanistan turns out to be Abdullah Abdullah, we in the west can mark the occasion by listening to the music of Duran Duran and reading…what else?…Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
The Associated Press reports that it has obtained a video which shows workers at an egg hatchery in Iowa tossing live male chicks into a grinder because “they can’t lay eggs or be raised quickly or profitably enough for meat.” Hmmmm. Animal rights groups should advocate outsourcing the industry to India or China, where males…
These are among my favorite bumper stickers: “Defend the right to arm bears,” “Committing suicide in Kansas is redundant,” “My son can beat up your honor student!” What’re yours?
American Democracy guarantees Freedom of Speech to everyone, whether they be birthers or deathers or people who are outright liars or just plain nuts, which leads me to wonder whether Democracy carries within itself the seeds for its own destruction. DEMOCRACY S(elf-destr)UCKS?