Hyphen Lynks: The Plain 'n' Simple Edition
Linky-loos for your week:
- Apparently, Sonal Shah is the highest paid Indian American in the White House [1]. Apparently, that's news.
- Californian Hmong American women are less likely to get a pap smear [2]; their rate of cervical cancer is four times that of white women.
- Sanctions against Iran are causing problems for students [3] trying to take the TOEFL so that they can study in the U.S. Their test fees can't be processed.
- Some Gulf fishermen are protesting the re-opening of fishing grounds [4]; they'd rather work to clean up than to catch tainted fish.
- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" opponent Lt. Dan Choi fired [5] from military for being publicly gay. Commentary here [6], including the burning question: Why did Obama go back on his promise to kill "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"?
- Atlantic has a profile of Russell Peters [7] ... with videos!
- While accelerating overall deportations, Obama Admin has halted deportations of undocumented students [8] and slowed deportations of undocumented immigrants with no crimes (besides being undocumented) on their records. Shockingly, the Repugnantcans are against it.
- O-Dub has an article in the Atlantic blog about mixed marriage trends [9].
- The first JA manager in major league baseball history, Don Wakamatsu, was fired from the Seattle Mariners [10] for their poor performance.
- SF Chron talks about H.P. Mendoza's 2009 film, Fruit Fly [11], which will be screening in SF this week. It's about a Filipina performance artist fag hag. See trailer below: