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Joe the Plumber’s Book is out… Out of Stock already?

January 30, 2009 imho is just a polite way to say I know you don't give a hoot what I think but I'm going to say it anyway

A friend of mine recently paid more than a month of her salary for a plumber’s visit. I commented on her Facebook page, jokingly: Is it Joe the Plumber? This reminds me that, well, Joe is probably not doing house calls any more, since he is supposed to be living off the sales of his [...]

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In praise of the book, “American Born Chinese”

January 5, 2009 random

For Chinese people or people in the know, American Born Chinese are known as ABC, and different from Chinese immigrants (be their parents or their distant cousins), they have to cope with a different set of tribulations, and many of these are psychological. This book, or rather, graphic novel, follows the tradition of Frank Chin's angry [...]

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Here is a Christmas present idea: Joe the Plumber book!

November 18, 2008 imho is just a polite way to say I know you don't give a hoot what I think but I'm going to say it anyway

I am never one to abandon people when they are down in their luck. I do genuinely worry about people who enjoyed their 15-minute of fan and then never to be heard/seen again. I want the follow-up news, the updates. I want to make sure that they were not thrown over the wall like a [...]

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Long live Kilgore Trout!

October 6, 2008 random

I have not mourned the death of Kurt Vonnegut, and now it is one and half year late(r)… By not thinking about it, I thought unthinkingly that it would be as if he had not left this world, to me at least. The way the world is going to hell in a hand basket, perhaps, [...]

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