Bushmaster Firearms is being sued for selling AR-15s, which was one of the weapons Adam Lanza used to mow down first graders in 2012.

Another Tagalog word makes it into the OED!

The other day I was eating by myself at a restaurant and happened to overhear a heart-to-heart conversation between (two people who I assumed to be) a father and his teenage son. The father had (something like) this to say:

Oh man, I let myself get burned. Despite my brown skin, even I am not immune to the effects of the California sun.

Even as I grow torpid and still, I remember that I promised myself that I would see the ocean today, come hell or high water. The temptation to just crash out on my bed is immense, but I know I will be a lesser person if I give in.

It comes to nothing
in the first few trickling seconds of this new day
(cuz don’t you know that time is a river, you go with the flow)

The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. Rescind SP-1/SP-2 and restore affirmative action. Macs vs Wintel, the neverending saga. (The penguin hides in waiting.) Flame people who send essentialist lists of Filipino and Filipino-American characteristics until their keyboards catch on fire.