Trump jury? It better have at least one Asian American, as we generally get cast as Juror No.1 or Juror No. 9, in many court dramas on TV.
It’s one of our stereotypes.
We will have to wait a few days to see if that happens or if we can even find the perfect Americans for this history-making jury. ...
I’m in New York doing my show, “Emil Amok, Lost NPR Host, Wiley Filipino, Vegan Transdad” as part of the New York City Fringe/Under St Marks Theater for three more shows, including one this Saturday.
But I’m still working as a journalist, viewing the world from an Asian American lens.
This week, I...
You might have seen a certain digital billboard over Times Square last week.
Hope you didn’t blink. It was up just 5 seconds an hour for just ten hours. It did not cause the earth to move. If you missed it, this very picture will be used in another digital ad over Times Square by the George Cohan s...
Finally, Harvard has announced it has achieved the perfect racial balance in its new freshman class!
Of course, you know that’s an April Fool’s joke.
But this is true. Now, we know how it feels for Asian Americans to be used as a tool to end policies for racial equity.
No one knew what would happ...
Democrats are hoping the buzz from that pre-Good Friday, star-studded Radio City Music Hall fundraiser lasts through a Good November.
That would be some resurrection for President Biden, whose approval numbers are stuck in the 30s.But maybe the sight of Clinton, Obama, and Biden--three Democratic p...
Over the last few years, I’ve taken my columns and turned them into springboards for my comic memoirs that I’ve taken to the stage.
The newest iteration of my live Amok monologues features a new story about my conversion therapy as a transdad.
Transdad?
See the show in New York City starting Apri...
I bought something from a Chinese company on social media recently. When I got the product, it didn’t work.
I panicked, then relaxed because I bought it through an American tech giant, which gives me recourse.
Going to the product company directly was a nightmare in communication. Most of the emai...
Oh, how we hate the term “model minority,” which presupposes a good model for people of color and Asian Americans in particular to follow in life and career.
But judging by his performance the other day at a congressional hearing, Robert Hur, the former special prosecutor in the Biden documents cas...
Most want to rush to see the movies that won an Oscar after the fact. But there is one film you definitely should see after Oscar night and it’s a nominated movie that didn’t win, “Past Lives.”
It didn’t win for best picture or for Celine Song’s original screenplay. But as one who was a film critic...
State of the Union address? It was more like President Biden’s “Save the Nation” address.
And frankly, he had me at “Hello.”
Or more specifically, “Hitler.”
President Joe Biden started his State of the Union address by quoting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on January 1941 saying, “I address...
Nikki Haley knows how to appeal to the Asian American in me.
“Just last week, my mother, a first generation immigrant, got to vote for her daughter for President,” Haley, of Indian descent, said. “Only in America.”
And with that opening, Haley suspended—though not ended–her campaign on a not so su...
Shane Gillis was on “SNL” hosting last Saturday, and maybe you found him funny. But probably not if you’re Asian American.
Believe me, I empathize with people trying to be funny.
I detest people showing off or underplaying their racism.
I recently returned from Los Angeles where I did five minute...
Comedian Shane Gillis was announced as the host more than a week ago for the Feb. 24th episode of Saturday Night Live.
Activists rev your engines? Or not?
Boycott the show? Or hope Bowen Yang and Shane Gillis mudwrestle on national TV?
If you’ll recall five years ago, Gillis was hired as a cast m...
Ageism is everywhere now if you haven’t noticed, thanks to a certain Asian American special prosecutor.
First, I tried to get away from the news by watching Super Bowl 58, which at 58 is still well under mandatory retirement age.
The San Francisco 49ers seemed to explode out of the gate, dominatin...
My father, Willie Guillermo, born under the American flag in the colonial America that was the Philippines, has a birthday today. He would have been 119 and thriving had he stopped eating pork at a reasonable age and gone vegan.
So, of course, he was in the back of my mind while I pondered all of t...
Let’s thank Tom Cotton, the MAGA Republican Senator from Arkansas, for inspiring the uniquely racist Lunar New Year greeting for 2024.
I can hear Cotton now saying, “Gung Hay Fat Communist!”
Or words to that effect. More on that later in this column, but first, the Lunar New Year officially begins...
If you’re an Asian American of Chinese descent who loves computers or data science, whether you’re an academic or not, be forewarned.
Once again, the FBI’s Christopher Wray is making news with another dire warning, this time at a Congressional hearing this week.
Wray said point blank that “China’s...
Honestly, E. Jean Carroll should be made an honorary Asian American.
I’ll explain.
But first, at least for what she went through in her multiple trials against Donald Trump, Carroll is democracy’s hero.
In case you were wondering (and we all are considering the number of Trump's legal entanglemen...
Nikki Haley, the lone Asian American, and lone woman, left running for president on the Republican side, isn’t quitting the race yet, despite an 11 point loss in New Hampshire.
Instead, she may be doing the country a big public service. As long as Haley keeps running, she baits Trump into showing u...
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said this week that
“America is not a racist country.”
And then Donald Trump proved her wrong by calling Haley by her Indian name--Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley— just to rile up the scores of racists in Trump’s Republican MAGA base.
Only Trump put an even...
