Archive for September, 2007
September 18, 2007 at 3:57 pm · Filed under Asian American, Media
I LOVE MASI OKA! You have to love a guy who can code and save the world…and still have a sense of humor and humility! He’ll be on Ellen this Friday:
Friday, September 21: MASI OKA
Put your learning pants on because STEVE SPANGLER THE SCIENCE GUY is giving a demonstration on gasses. No, not that kind of gas. He’s also going to dip a guy in invisible ink and knock a paper cup off of an audience member’s head with a giant smoke ring blown all the way from across the studio. Then, last season he helped save the cheerleader and the world, and now Ellen is saving him a seat on her show. From the super-powered NBC blockbuster “Heroes,” MASI OKA comes back from the future to reveal exciting details from the much anticipated second season and witnesses first hand Ellen’s super interviewing powers.
September 18, 2007 at 3:51 pm · Filed under Politics
“And it was more or less as if we created a doom machine: In our search for wealth and for prosperity, we create a thing that’s going to destroy us.”
- Robert Monks, Corporate governance advisor
At what point do we stop destroying ourselves in pursuit of wealth? Or, at what point do we stop pursuing wealth because it’s destroying us?
I think we will stop once we redefine “us.”
Chris Rock once said that only the white man can make money off of pain, and to a great extent, that seems true: the majority of those with the greatest wealth and power have gotten these things through the exploitation and suffering of “others” - in this case, the non-white, non-male. It’s easier to let other people suffer if you don’t identify with them as fellow people. You can justify it to yourself if you buy into: “They can always say no.”
September 18, 2007 at 12:21 pm · Filed under Arts, Asian American, Literature, Opportunities
From the Secret Identities site:
Although top talents from the comics industry will be contributing to Secret Identities, we continue to actively seek Asian American creators both in and outside the comics industry interested in contributing one to six page stories to the book, either within the superhero genre or commenting on it in a satirical or insightful fashion. This may include artist/writer teams or artist-writer sole creators as well as artists seeking to be paired with a writer, or writers with an idea seeking to be paired with an artist.
Interested artists must submit art samples, and writers must submit story ideas, by no later than October 15th, 2007 to be considered for the anthology. All characters and stories included in the collection must be original to their creators and previously unpublished in any venue. The collection is intended to be creator-owned: Contributors will retain all rights to characters, depictions, backgrounds, marks, and storylines associated with their submissions.
For submission guidelines and agreement, visit Secret Identities.
September 16, 2007 at 2:52 pm · Filed under Act now!, Politics
I just watched the testimonies of military and civilian participants and veterans of the IraQuagmire in “Iraq For Sale;” and, as an American who lost a good friend in 9/11 and has old family friends fighting/working in Iraq now, I’m extremely upset with how the Bush administration allowed Halliburton/KBR, and their various spinoffs and cronies, to take such egregious advantage of our country and its citizens. They have all robbed us through fraudulent billings and exponential overcharging for often extraneous and /or redundant jobs. That money should have gone to help our troops and our children instead.
* In February 2007, Congressman Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, released
a report saying that out of the 20 billion dollars charged to the U.S.
government by Halliburton, 2.4 billion dollars were “unsupported” and
“questioned” costs. *
September 13, 2007 at 10:50 am · Filed under Politics
“You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the
war on terror.”
—Interview with CBS News, Washington D.C., Sept. 6, 2006
No kidding, W. That’s probably because there never was a connection between Saddam/Iraq and Osama/Al-Qaida. Thanks for making your lies even more obvious.
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