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Hyphen Lynks: The Beat It Edition

Claire Light - December 12, 2010

They told me/don't you ever come around here/Don't wanna hear the news/you better disappear.

The fire's in their eyes/and their words aren't really clear ... but I'm gonna tell you anyway, so there:

  • The Guardian gets it right: it's time for the FBI to stop spying on Muslim Americans [1]. Too bad it's the Brits and not our own journalists saying this. Beat it. Just beat it.
  • Two Oregon high-schoolers, one a 16-year-old Indian American, have developed speech recognition software that detects emotions [2]. They were inspired by the movie I, Robot. Because they're bad, they're bad, you know it.
  • Southwest Airlines has become the official airline of the Japanese American Citizens League [3]. Shamon!
  • IndiAm Astronomer leads a team that just discovered a diamond-studded planet [4]. The planets are lining up. We're bringing brighter days.
  • Historians in Texas are trying to preserve the remains of WWII Japanese American internment camps [5]. Mamasay mamasah ma mah goo sah.
  • The New York Times has declared S [6]iddhartha Mukherjee's first book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer one of its 10 best books of the year [6]. Ow!
  • The Pentagon's chief military recruiter likes the Dream Act [7], because it gets fresh immigrant blood to swell the military's ranks. Where did you come from, Baby? And ooo won't you take me there, right away, won't you, baby?
  • The US military is renaming the Persian Gulf "The Arabian Gulf," [8] with, of course, no intention of offending anyone. They just want to love you, PYT.
  • A Fil Am priest was arrested in an adult video store [9] in Texas for diddling himself in pubic -- uh, public. When questioned, he said he was starting with the man in the mirror.
  • Lennon-murderer Mark David Chapman's JA wife stands by her man [10], even while spending her life making reparation for his wrongs. She and he must make a pact, they must bring salvation back.
  • Fil Am hospital staff in Los Angeles are suing [11], claiming that the English-only policies at the hospital are being unfairly enforced on them. Hospital spokespeople said it doesn't matter if you're black or white.
  • Two L.A. Koreatown banks are merging [12], to form the largest Korean American bank, and to terrorize y'alls neighborhood.
  • A failed OC Viet Am bank is suing over a scam [13]. People shoulda told 'em: be careful what you do, don't go around breaking Viet Ams' hearts.
  • RIP No-no boy and Fair Play Committee member Frank Emi [14]. Why, why? Tell 'em that it's human nature.

And now, watch the inimitable Dr. K [15] jammin' on this week's theme song:

 

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News and Politics [16]

Source URL: https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2010/12/12/hyphen-lynks-beat-it-edition

Links
[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/07/islam-terrorism
[2] http://sify.com/news/inspired-by-i-robot-indian-american-student-shares-top-us-science-prize-news-international-kmhuapcegji.html
[3] http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/luv_southwest-airlines-becomes-official-airline-of-japanese-american-citizens-league-1351549.html
[4] http://www.hindustantimes.com/Indian-American-astronomer-finds-diamond-studded-planet/H1-Article1-636207.aspx
[5] http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-texas-internment-camps,0,2531054.story
[6] http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/Indian-Americans-book-among-NYTs-10-best-of-2010/articleshow/7057810.cms
[7] http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/12/07/us_immigration_students/index.html
[8] http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/12/12/persian-gulf-or-arabian-gulf
[9] http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideNews.htm?f=2010/december/11/news6.isx&d=2010/december/11
[10] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336762/John-Lennon-killer-Mark-Chapmans-wife-Gloria-visits-prison-sex.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
[11] http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978782766
[12] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2010/12/merger-of-nara-and-center-will-create-largest-korean-american-bank.html
[13] http://articles.ocregister.com/2010-12-08/news/25185657_1_bank-account-first-vietnamese-american-bank-orange-county-bank
[14] http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-frank-emi-20101209,0,5659100.story
[15] http://www.youtube.com/user/DrKsongs
[16] https://hyphenmagazine.com/categories/news-and-politics