LILY CHIN

Lily Chin, mother of slain Vincent Chin, died seven years ago today.

Mrs. Chin fought valiantly for justice after her son was bludgeoned to death in Detroit in June 1982 by two automotive workers and were only sentenced to three years probation and fined $3,000 each. Ronald Ebens and his step-son mistook Chin for Japanese and blamed him for the decline of the American automotive industry. Because Ebens uttered a racial slur, he was tried on federal civil rights charges for violenting Chin's rights under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A second trial acquitted Ebens.

In the end, Mrs. Chin never found justice for her son. She returned to China, and then returned to Michigan. Her work, courage, and strength ignited the Asian Amerian Civil Rights Movement.

OH, TEXAS...

Once again, another dumbass paints Texas as ignorant. First, Jimmy Norton. Now, Terrell, Texas Rep. Betty Brown!

During House testimony on voter identification legislation, she said about Asian Americans: “Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese...do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?”

You can educate her at the state’s capital address:
Room E1.404, Capitol Extension / Austin, TX 78701
betty.brown@house.state.tx.us / (512) 463-0458

She is a real dumbass. Dumbass!

TEXAS ROCKS

Love is difficult, love is hard, but I believe confidently that I just found the one: shrimp fried rice woman in Holtom City, Texas.

I’m not sure what she looks like or even if she loves long walks on the beach as much as I do, but I know I love her already. Why? Well, when she aks for extra shrimp in her fried rice and didn’t get it, she did what any normal person would do: she called 911. (Yep, was huuungry. I get it.) She told the dispatcher, through tears and sadness, I’m sure, “He didn’t even put extra shrimp in there.”

Gosh, I love the way she loves shrimp. Ugh, how can you not love her? Right???

GOOD THING I DIDN’T HAVE A CAMERA PHONE...

Thank God (whoever your God is...) they didn’t have camera phones when I was growing up. I would be a registered sex offender! Ugh...

Sexting, the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos primarily between cell phones, is something that many pubescent teenagers, gays, Miley Cyrus, and Vanessa Hudgens like to do. It’s a phenomenon that is spreading like STDs in a gay bar with barely pubescent teenagers. And some are paying the price by being charged with child pornography and having to register as sex offenders. Oh, the shame!

It’s clear lots of underaged, horny teens enjoy sending lascivious pics of themselves. Just don’t forward it to your buds if you’re over 18, dumbass. But thank you God for not creating the camera phone when I was a horny teen. Jail would not be cute.


Above: Phillip Alpert is a registered sex offender as a result of sending a nude photograph of his 16-year-old girlfriend. Loser!

DREAM ON...

I am bad at many, many things. But there’s one thing I am passionate, proactive, and excited about at work, and love spending 8-hours working hard at: daydreaming.

Yes, in between shuffling paper around and sending point-the-finger-at-someone-else emails, I daydream incessantly. It turns out, it was the right thing to do at work. According to PsychologyToday.com, “...daydreaming now appears to be a vital function of the psyche—a cauldron of creativity and an arena for rehearsing social skills.”

Who knew? Finally! Thank goodness, I am good at something besides perusing blogs, beating the crap out of pubescent teenage girls, and looking stupid. Yes!