Frank Chow: Asian- American Political Pundit

We drank. We drank liberally. We even ate cupcakes. Drinking Liberally success! This week is half way through and I am psyched about it. Not that this week has been particularly bad per say, but it has been drab. I am hoping this weekend's Sox v Yankees game will provide more action. I am kind of out of it. So let's just do this shebang. Here are your highlights: Carter lands in N. Korea Interesting new data. Birth rates fall in Illinois during the recession Christian Extremists The bonehead that is John Boehner is reflective of the GOP Donovan McNabb is hurt ...FML Oh so surprising, the economy isn't doing better, it is barely surviving . If only we had a government that would learn from our past and DO SOMETHING. Chow!

Anne Applebum prease terr us how you feerr : I favor another scenario, equally speculative: Perhaps the North Koreans have stepped up their war rhetoric and war preparations because China wants them to do so. Anne has a stellar resume , but when it comes to Asians she is in the field of fearing the Olympics and those darn Chinese gymnasts, CHINAAAA AWWWW and North Korea the new threat to America. She goes on with her detailed con-spiracy. By permitting North Korea to rattle its sabers, the Chinese can monitor Obama's reaction to a military threat without having to deploy a threat themselves. They can see how serious the new American administration is about controlling the spread of nuclear weapons without having to risk sanctions or international condemnation of their own nuclear industry. They can distract and disturb the new administration without harming Chinese-American economic relations, which are crucial to their own regime's stability. And if the game goes badly, they c...

It pains me to say this, but the first phrase that popped in my mind after hearing North Korea was testing their nuclear capabilities was "I learned from watching you Dad." The old and terrible anti-drug commercial from the 1980's that we all remember now comically with a son's reply to a pot smoking father. I wouldn't necessarily liken America to a pot smoking father rather we are more like the recovering pimp/ crack dealer attempting to tell his kids not to do drugs. The quest for nuclear proliferation has long been sought by nations across the globe. It was a sign of sophistication and a power play; however America remains to this day the only nation to use nuclear weapons. And we cannot forget that. Yesterday and today's headlines persist with a consensus of condemnation of such actions and rightfully so. It is a modern era. Today's world has learned from the choice America made in WWII and the aftermath thereafter. It has led to a long and tenuous r...