Matt Logue’s book, “Empty Los Angeles.” News The Senate passes a motion, 60-39, to begin discussing the health care bill. Sports Harvard’s Jeremy Lin is pioneering the way for Asian-American basketball players. Miscellaneous Cultural factors limit the recession’s impact on Asian-American families. Chinese Americans reflect on Barack’s visit to China. Lost is back February 2, …
Four months of 2009 left! News The CA wildfires continue to expand; also, they’re visible from space. Cash for Clunkers helps out a little. The US Open (tennis) kicked off in Flushing Meadow, NY. The Democratic Party of Japan sweeps aside the Liberal Democratic Party, who had been in power for 54 years. Green Blood …
Yeah, I’m not gonna blog about them for a little while …
I love Jon Stewart. “Taxed Enough Already.” Protesting high taxes and government’s wasteful spending. Okay, part two first: as Jon Stewart notes, protesting wasteful spending by buying lots and lots and lots of tea bags—and I may be going out on a limb here, but I doubt they’re going to use those afterwards—doesn’t spell anything …
Today, two weeks after I had my jaw broken, I had my first post-op visit with the surgeon, and finally had the rubber bands—that have been my bane over the last fortnight—removed. I can open my mouth again, I can eat (soft foods), I can brush my teeth properly; it’s the little things that I’m …