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Yet Another Reason For Al Qaeda – and now Florida! – To Hate Us

  • February 21, 2012 4:03 am

In the 20th century, 158 hurricanes walloped the United States.  Leading the pack was Florida with 57, Texas came in second with 36, and we have a tie for third place between Louisiana and North Carolina, each boasting 25 landfalls.

So what’s a bored, decadent, hurricane-free state like California to do?

Install photo-booth size Hurricane Simulators, that’s what!

(I wonder if they have Earthquake Simulators in Florida, Texas, Louisiana and North Carolina?)

I stopped in at one of our higher end outdoor malls, Bay Street, to redeem the Banana Republic gift card my mom had gotten me for Christmas, when, on the way back to the parking garage, I passed this little Hurricane booth.  Read more...

When Terror Babies Attack!

  • August 14, 2010 12:01 am

Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert and Texas State Rep Debbie Riddle (both Republicans) have been actively sounding the alarm this week about the imminent threat to the U.S. from terror babies.

For those unaware of this latest threat to our freedom, here’s what it is in a nutshell: Al Qaeda or some other Muslim terrorist group sends pregnant women to America on tourist visas and these women give birth to their children on our soil which automatically grants them U.S. citizenship status. Then, the babies are whisked back to the Middle East where they are trained to be terrorists who will come back to the U.S. in 20 or 30 years (their citizenship allowing them to do this) to carry out some nefarious plot against America. Both Gohmert and Riddle said they obtained this information from retired FBI agents (Gohmert also told Fox News that he heard of this plot form a “Hamas-loving grandmother” aboard a flight).

The only problem with these claims? There’s no evidence to back them up.  Read more...

Ten Years Gone: From Texas To Grace Kim

  • November 6, 2009 12:28 pm

5740_1047853775398_1797318640_100163_3281659_nWhat I remember most from that very first meeting ten years ago was a young actor (and now fellow Offender) named Roger Fan challenging us in the way that only Roger Fan can.

The date was July 1999. The place was the rec room of a condo complex in the San Fernando Valley. And the occasion was the first meeting of a new Asian American theater company. It was three fellow artists—Chil, Tim and Bokyun—and myself who had called this meeting. We had been a part of The Society of Heritage Performers, a Korean American theater company founded by veteran actor Soon-Tek Oh, but felt it was now time to expand. We not only wanted to create a place for all Asian American artists and others who were down with our cause, but also focus on the type of work you rarely saw Asian Americans doing then—work that was “edgy” and provocative.  Read more...