Happy New Year! In the year 2013 Chan and I decided to start blogging about some of our experiences. One article that inspired me to start writing was a story about a letter that Leonard Nimoy (writing as the Star…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiU0aqqKp0[/youtube] I laughed out loud the first time I watched this video; it manages to be both equal parts instructive and funny. While some of it has to be exaggerated… I can’t imagine that anyone with any common sense (or a healthy respect for living) would ask their girlfriend…
Last week, George Lucas won an Emmy. But that wasn’t the big news story that came out about Lucas. Instead, news organizations made much of Lucas’ embarrassing slip up during his speech when he confused the NAACP (National Association for…
Jessica Olssen and Dirk Nowitski To honor the start of the NBA Finals, we present you with the 2011 Finals MVP Dirk Nowitski and his lovely wife, Jessica Olssen. Dirk married Jessica in 2011 and honored Jessica’s Kenyan roots by…
The Washington Post reports that Jack McCain, a Navy pilot and son of Senator John McCain got married over the weekend to Renee Swift, an Air Force reserve captain. I am pouring over the pics from the wedding and I am…
Slate.com has a great article on the recent uproar surrounding Cheerios’ latest effort to encourage people to save their hearts by eating processed food. As Slate reports, “Just Checking,” a cute Cheerios ad featuring a little girl, her white…
Webster’s dictionary defines race as: (1) a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits; (2) a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics I cringe every time I hear the phrase, “I don’t…
George Carlin famously pointed out that “Colin Powell is openly white, but happens to be black.” This line is funny because it enforces the stereotype that being “white” or “black” goes beyond skin color and reflects a set of values,…
