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Halloween Politics: McCain is Joe the P. and I’m Rachel Maddow—scary!
This Halloween, I’m a lesbian.
Just call me Emila Mok. Until midnight at least. Maybe until election day.
A little solidarity for my sisters on the Prop. 8 thing.
I got the idea while watching Rachel Maddow. I liked her look and thought, “Gee her hair style looks like my picture in my column.” Indeed on my column [...] -
We have the data: National study shows APAs back Obama, poised to play swing role in November elections
Forty-one percent of Asian Americans support Barack Obama compared to just 24 percent who support John McCain, according to a comprehensive groundbreaking national survey released today in Washington.
But the most significant revelation is how Asian Americans are more undecided as a group compared to the national population. Thirty-four percent of Asian Americans say they have [...] -
Slant-eyed Spanish team wins Olympic gold–for racism
Have you seen the picture yet of the Spanish Olympic roundball team. Really, there’s no competition. Pure racist gold. Maybe if some country did a team photo with all its members in fake Fu Manchu facial hair. That would be gold medal worthy. But the Spanish Olympic basketball didn’t need implements, they improvised in [...]
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Tibet protests DO have impact: China to open talks
China now appears to be bending the Tibet issue after weeks of tough talks, violence and international protest.
Of course, that’s still an interpretation based on this “read between the lines” public pronouncement:
“In view of the requests repeatedly made by the Dalai side for resuming talks, the relevant department of the central government will have contact [...] -
Special to blog readers: This week’s “Emil Amok”
In the aftermath of the Tibet/China/Torch protests, one thing is clear:
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
All the way around–from City Hall to the Board of Supervisors, from the street protestors to the pro-China counter-protestors to the Olympic committee to China–no one has found an effective way to persuade the other to move [...] -
Pelosi leans toward Olympic boycott
Nancy Pelosi has always been a leader on the human rights question with China. Oddly, it was the Clinton administration, not a GOP administration, that was able to lift the ban on trade with China. I remember when that happened I wondered if the trade would incent China to be better [...]
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Newsom’s Olympic fig leaf
Mayor Gavin Newsom is doing the only thing he can do right now: he’s hiding behind the issue of safety.
On a KCBS radio interview, Newsom said he was “sorry” people didn’t see the torch along the announced route. The mayor said the change was made in “real time” to assure the safety of the torch [...] -
Olympics of Chaos
Imagine you gave a party and your guests arrived, but at the last minute you decided to have your cake somewhere else—without your guests.
Does that sound bizarre?
But isn’t that exactly what’s happening on San Francisco streets as city and Olympic officials try so hard to avoid protesters or the general public?
This is Chinese freedom in [...] -
Praise for Nancy Pelosi: Pressuring China on Tibet
While I’ve had differences with Speaker Pelosi’ on the Filipino American vets issues, Ms. Pelosi is showing true leadership on the Tibet issue.
She’s one of the few politicians to speak out for human rights in light of last week’s crackdown by China on political activists in Lhasa.
Those events are a wake up call for all [...]