An Asian-hate issue in school? A freidn wrote: 昨晚参加了当地学区委员会的例会,作为家长我好好的听了学区委员们的口水会.如火如荼的仇恨亚裔事件频发的当下,不小心我们这样一个貌似山高水长春暖花开的地方也爆了个新闻.本来这样的例会应该就发生在中学里的仇恨事件展开说明.可好,那个坐在主席台中间的头直接封口所有的家长发言人不许谈论,如果涉及这个事件的议题直接掐麦赶人. 大概有十多分钟每一位学区委员发表了“发自肺腑”吹捧学监的肉麻致词.差点晚饭没吐出来. 我只问了一个简单的问题:该学区亚裔美国人学生占比多少,没有一位学区委员能正面回答. 那个学监拿着上百万的工资混了个疫情无所作为,学生生源族裔占比无知无畏,一个仇恨事件的发生想通过三句话在一篇洋洋洒洒的通讯中轻描淡写一带而过,你骗谁. Newsday: Syosset Central School District Superintendent Thomas Rogers issued a statement at…
Click farm/fake review is a modern term and a fraud: you or a business pay someone to click an ad link or write fake reviews.…
A retired cadre I met in Tangshan in 2019 often posts things that open my eyes. Here is one: 南海抓到“大黑鱼”了,美核潜艇被迫投降,丢人丢大发了 ⇒ Google translates: The “big black fish”…
China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s TerritorySince 2015, a previously unnoticed network of roads, buildings, and military outposts has been constructed deep in…
So, the Biden Administration supports to waive international patent protections for covid-19 vaccines. How would this work to save the world?! Aren’t patents the bread…
Some recent news: SpaceX capsule returned India covid-19 Tesla in Shanghai, and Berlin Elon Musk‘s SpaceX capsule returned four astronauts back to earth (after six…
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck published in 2007 (2,089 rating on Amazon at this writing), and The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s…
Today’s bookclub is on Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama‘s memoir published in 2018, which, at this moment, has generated 109,127 ratings on Amazon – a…
Own It: The Power of Women at Work, by Sallie Krawcheck. A road map for women to navigate at work and at home as well.…
How Jacob Loud’s land was lost, on Planet Money. This photo is from NPR. In 1999, Fred Wardlaw got a phone call from his mother.…