Triscribe

Some decent news: the Senate Judiciary Committee recommended Goodwin Liu and so the Senate ought to vote him up or down already (not to mention Edward Chen). Now the Senate ought to confirm them already and to avoid a federal shutdown. Not that I think they ought to do everything, but they kind of have [...]

Not that my hiatus was planned (really, it wasn’t!).  But, I’ll try to catch up a little with some commentary and links on things that might be a little old, but still good to check out. Some stuff to note, because around here at triscribe, we’re APA’s and we’re lawyers: The first Asian American woman [...]

Yes, it’s been awhile since my last post and I still haven’t made my comments about “The Last Airbender.” Suffice it to say that the more I think about it, the more disappointed I am with “The Last Airbender” for not having a better cast.  I’m not suggesting that M. Night Shyamalan had to cast [...]

APA’s in the news: I don’t envy the position that US Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, is in; he has a steep learning curve on the oil leak disaster, even if it’s pretty darn good that we do have a Nobel Laureate like him on the matter. Speaking of the oil leak disaster, would a Republican [...]

World Science Festival in the city; some good stuff. So, along with wacky service problems on weekends (shuttle bus, anyone?), MTA’s going to be issuing a new map (probably to reflect the end of some subway lines and other things). It’s supposed to look sleeker.  Hmm.  We’ll see how good it’ll be. But, it’s a [...]

Sorry to have fallen behind; life and other things occurred. Like… Arizona passing odd laws: like their anti-illegal immigration law (still not sure how the law enforcement goes about stopping to identify who’s illegal without causing a whole host of other problems and not to mention where Arizona’s going to get the money to enforce [...]

The annual viewing of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” special tonight, plus a viewing of the more obscure “You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown,” wherein Linus loses his lead in the class president election with his broadcasted belief in the Great Pumpkin (and Lucy learns that it’s very hard to be the campaign manager). Hat [...]

“Even old New York was once New Amsterdam…” — we’re apparently celebrating the 400th anniversary of Hudson on the river, with the Dutch monarchy in town. The NY Times on bento boxes. The president making a speech on telling kids to work hard in school and all that stuff — honestly, it’s either going to [...]

I wish summer didn’t have to end. Catching up on reading: Time Magazine on one man’s attempt to stop the tide of suicides in Japan, not a great trend in the middle of a recession. Hat tip to Angry Asian Man for some great links, namely: John Cho, in style, Angry Asian Man notes. Not [...]

A follow up to the story that I linked on the rapper who allegedly got herself an education: I say “allegedly” because a Slate article by Ben Sheffner says it’s all faked. Daily News has some explaining to do. At least Daily News did a correct story on the upcoming closing of the French bookstore [...]