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My father, like troves of other Koreans, started a fruit and vegetable store a few years after we arrived in New York City from El Paso, TX, where we lived immediately after having moved to the States. (bugged out right?) Weird thing was that his store wasn’t in Manhattan, where today “Korean deli” is like […]

via youtube.com This is funny. Posted via email from sam han’s posterous

Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, one of the country’s most prominent tea party organizations, really seems to despise the Methodist Church, or as he would call it, “the first Church of Karl Marx.” In a recent blog post (subscription required) the founder of Tea Party Nation recounts his recent experience visiting the United […]

There have been many attempts at writing just the right thing for the holidays. Perhaps the best effort has come from David Sedaris, whose Santaland Diaries is so masterful, I’d sacrifice 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th borns to the writing gods to obtain such literary skill. (Listen to an excerpt from NPR here.) Alas, I […]

via newyorker.com The article in the most recent New Yorker by John Cassidy on “state capitalism” and the falsehood of the concept of “free trade” is so damn good but it’s behind their selective pay-wall. There is, however, this, which I think must be useful. Posted via email from sam han’s posterous

The prison protest has entered the wireless age. Inmates in at least seven Georgia prisons have used contraband cellphones to coordinate a nonviolent strike this weekend, saying they want better living conditions and to be paid for work they do in the prisons. Inmates said they would not perform chores, work for the Corrections Department’s […]

A new strategy is needed for a brutal new era 13 December 2010 Peter Hallward describes why he joined the demonstration on 9 December, and gives his personal account of how events unfolded that day Last Thursday, the government passed one of the most reactionary and ill-conceived pieces of legislation in this country’s history. At […]

The decision has reopened a long-simmering tension between researchers in science-based anthropological disciplines — including archaeologists, physical anthropologists and some cultural anthropologists — and members of the profession who study race, ethnicity and gender and see themselves as advocates for native peoples or human rights. During the last 10 years the two factions have been […]

Thesis 0 “What do I think of WikiLeaks? I think it would be a good idea!” (after Mahatma Gandhi’s famous quip on “Western Civilization”) Thesis 1 Changing media — Media in change Media-technological developments are causing a fundamental re-structuring of the newspaper and book publishing sectors, with traditional media locked in fierce competition with online […]