They nurse the sick in California, drive fuel trucks in Iraq, sail cargo ships through the Panama Canal and cruise ships through the Gulf of Alaska. They pour sake for Japanese salarymen and raise the children of Saudi businessmen.
Thus starts the LA Times article on the Philippines’ most successful export: its workers.
Compelling photos also accompany [...]
After a month and a half of non-stop rain, we got a break here in the Bay Area. It couldn’t have come at a better time. It’s the kids’ spring break, you see. I took advantage of the wonderful weather and took the kids out on two separate days.
Last Tuesday, the kids’ cousin from [...]
For those who did not enjoy watching ABC’s new version of The Ten Commandments the past two nights, here is something to make up for it: Who Let the Jews Out.
Is this from the same folks who gave us My Humps last Christmas?
Just had a thought: will we ever see something similar done for [...]
Whoa, there’s only a few days left for the showing of Bindlestiff Studio’s multi-genre production The FOB Show in San Francisco. It’s ill-timed though, falling on the same week as the last week for filing taxes. I better get on TurboTax and make sure the IRS won’t come after me.
It’s a loaded term – FOB, [...]
Here’s what the victim had to say about the incident at a wi-fi enabled cafe in San Francisco:
“I looked up, and I saw this guy leaning into me as if he was asking a question,” he said. “I leaned forward, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw someone fiddling with the computer [...]