*facesmacks*

[kyburg]

I just got back from the PO Box. I set this up back when we moved from Ontario into Torrance almost four years ago now, and decided to keep it because it was a great place to send people away from the physical address if I didn't really want them to know much about me.

The box has turned out to be a wonderful catch all for charitable groups who want to ask me for money.

I've got more address labels than any sane person. Seriously. Everyone sends them.

And last year, in the heat of getting the Christmas cards out - we used a bunch of them. You know, I should have thought more about not getting many cards returned to us due to invalid addresses - but I didn't.

Well, I've got four more sets of address labels.

And a bunch of returned Christmas cards. 16 of them. The little box was packed solid. There were also Christmas cards folks had sent back, using the return label for a guide that I hadn't received.

The pile included some LJers. Both received and returned. Oh boy. It's almost March. I keep saying I need to check that box more often, but this is ridiculous.

Uh, yeah. I'm going to try to resend the ones I can. Jim did the addressing, and I can see where he just didn't think to check - but I can almost be glad I have to redo the list from scratch during this year - boy, the return rate is just sucking ASS.

In other news?

A San Francisco weekly newspaper that bills itself as "The Voice of Asian America" is facing harsh criticism from that very community for publishing a column Friday titled "Why I Hate Blacks."

The original article. Proof positive that hate has no color.

I'm white and Christian. Should it be noted my groups are as hard hit as the others by this tool?

A 41-year-old Redding man charged with molesting a 12-year-old girl told investigators the child was his girlfriend and he loved her, court records show.

The relationship was exposed when Hakmiller telephoned Ontario police from Northern California and asked them to check on the girl because he feared she had been raped in her home.

Uh. She got siblings? Holy chrome.

I don't have to say I haven't missed Ontario once since I moved, right?

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[cecerose.livejournal.com]

A San Francisco weekly newspaper that bills itself as "The Voice of Asian America" is facing harsh criticism from that very community for publishing a column Friday titled "Why I Hate Blacks."

Yeah, and being one of "Asia America," I'm ready to write an article entitled "Why I hate racists idiots who happen to be Asian American."

Jesus.

[machineplay.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, the article sucks. It's nasty that someone would even say that, and no surprise that people think it. On the other hand, I have to say that I /sort of/ appreciate it every time someone like that outs themselves. There is a certain amount of clarity and progress that can come out of it.

Then again, if he says 'oh, I just print things like that to get people thinking', I think he needs a punch in the head. :p

[kuangning]

... How much younger could the parents have taken him for, if he was obviously old enough to drive? No-one old enough to have a car is an appropriate age to take *my* twelve-year-old daughter out for days on end, I can tell you.

[dracowayfarer.livejournal.com]

S'what I was wondering.

[dracowayfarer.livejournal.com]

The relationship was exposed when Hakmiller telephoned Ontario police from Northern California and asked them to check on the girl because he feared she had been raped in her home.

Heh. Irony.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

"Asian Week" is not fit for fishwrap, and hasn't been for ages; it's owned by the same family which ran the Examiner into the ground. I'm only surprised that enough people actually read the articles that this got noticed, honestly.

Not that I'm complaining about the outrage, oh no! especially if some action gets taken against the friggin' Fang conglomerate. But they are in no way representative of the SF Asian communities.

How About "Hideo Lipschitz"?

[bitpig.livejournal.com]

Editor in Chief Samson Wong declined further comment.

"Samson Wong" is a totally cool name.

Re: How About "Hideo Lipschitz"?

[bigbigtruck.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the name of the Big Bad Mob Boss that Sonny Chiba takes out in the final fight scene!