After our vacation in Los Angeles, Sasha returned to New York with dangerous knowledge—the knowledge that there exists a cartoon character named SpongeBob. Or, as she calls him, AssBob. She may never have watched the show with the sound on, but she knows he’s there, and that her mother will, on request, draw a picture …
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There was so much anti-China propaganda this week on DadWagon you’d have thought we’d have revealed our sponsorship by Falun Gong by now. Yes, we may have been justified in hating on our Sinitic brothers and sisters, but come on–where’s the fair and balanced? So this was one of those rare DadWagon weeks in which …
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There has been so much written about Amy Chua’s preposterous, boastful Wall Street Journal article, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” that I am loathe to simply pile on top of the discussion. What I’d rather do is point to another Wall Street Journal article, this one from 1991, dateline San Francisco: At age 17, Kio …
Continue reading “The Tantrum, Part 3: Should Your Babymama Be a “Chinese Mother”?”
I watched Obama’s memorial speech two nights ago at a college bar in Tucson called the Hut, a three minute drive from the University of Arizona basketball arena where the service was held. The bar projected the speech on a big screen behind a little stage. The Arizona League of Conservation Voters bought a bunch of …
