Sit On Me When I Am Dead!

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…

8 September 2009: Spare the President, Spoil the Child!

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…

6 September 2009: Will Blog for Supper

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…

Beauty and the Beast

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…

3 September 2009: Male Chicks, Beware!

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…