At what point can we say that Twitter's jumped the shark? When your boss joins? When your mom joins?

How about when your alter ego starts Tweeting, as was the case Monday with Tila Tequila?

The Twitter account of Tila, who has professed to suffer from Dissociative...

With Halloween right around the corner, a lot has been said already about the latest crop of costumes--from the good to the bad to the offensive. An Illegal Alien costume, which was pulled from the shelves of Target and Walgreens this week after complaints...

ABCNews.com--under its "Entertainment" section, it should be noted--posted a disturbing portrait Tuesday of Mayumi Heene, Balloon Boy's mother. The story, "Balloon Boy Mom: Co-Conspirator or Abused Wife?" not only suggests that Mayumi may be a victim in this saga, but that her being Japanese has something to do...

A young Asian woman was killed almost three weeks ago in September, and still no one seems to know who she was. I'm not, of course, talking...

The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute will release its fifth annual calendar this week, celebrating 2010's "Great American Conservative Women." Unlike last year's "Pretty in Mink" calendar, this one is decidedly more recession-friendly, depicting all 12 women in white shirts and soft lighting.

As for the name...

The death of DJ AM, also known as Adam Goldstein, becomes increasingly sad as the details publicly unfold. The New York Post reported that AM, who passed away from an apparent drug overdose, was confronted by his worried sponsor and manager on Thursday night. After smoking crack...

British newspaper The Independent reported last week that concubines are making a comecuback in China due to the return of capitalism. This is particularly fascinating to me because my great-great-grandmother was a concubine. She was the only "wife" of my great-great-grandfather able to give him...

By now you've probably heard the story: Former model Liskula Cohen, 37, subpoenas Google in January, in pursuit of a defamation suit "concerning her appearance, hygiene and sexual conduct" against the anonymous author of a Blogspot site called "Skanks in NYC." The blog features only...

Oh dear. It seems that we've ruffled a few feathers.

Last week, I wrote about a McDonald's ad campaign in Japan featuring one "Mr. James," a wacky gaijin nerd who speaks in broken Japanese (pictured), and the outrage that's ensued over this depiction of white foreigners there. Regarding...

What can I say about Ying Chu's recent Marie Claire piece "The New Trophy Wives: Asian Women" that hasn't already been said?

Our pals Joz at 8 Asians and Latoya Peterson, editor of Racialicious who's guest-blogging at Jezebel for the next two weeks, have...

Swine flu infections are on the rise in Asia, particularly in India, Thailand, and Vietnam, according to the World Health Organization. But only Malaysia, where 2,252 cases and 38 deaths have been reported since May, has proposed a radical preventative solution: stop masturbating and having gay sex.

Red Dawn was one of my favorite movies as a kid. It starred my girlhood crush, C. Thomas Howell. It was released in 1984, a year after The Outsiders, and it reunited three of that movie's cast members: Howell, Patrick Swayze, and Darren Dalton. Red...

Poor Gordon Liddy. The 78 year-old Watergate mastermind appears to be losing his mind. On Wednesday, while most of the country was busy heralding the safe return of American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling from North Korea--FOX News and other right-wing fearmongers being notable exceptions--

Us Weekly seemed hardly able to...

That's Emiri Miyasaka (Miss Universe Japan) below, in a brand-spankin'-new national costume, which she will apparently be wearing to the big galactic competition on August 23 of this year.

Once again, the prisoners at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, where 70 percent of the inmates are convicted of serious crimes like murder, rape and drug trafficking, make maximum-security incarceration look really awesome with another Michael Jackson dance video, this time to "Dangerous":

Does anyone really care about the Facebook Movie? Or, for that matter, Facebook? Sure, Facebook currently boasts 250 million users, and Mark Zuckerberg had his official coming-out party as a mogul on Oprah a few months back, but all that really means is that your...

The only time I cried Tuesday during the Michael Jackson memorial was in the middle of it, when I went back to sleep after an awful night of tossing and turning and dreamed that I was crying, uncontrollably, that hiccupy, face-contorting, ugly kind of crying. It was unclear...

The man responsible for Vogue editor Anna Wintour's signature helmet bob is a Malaysian-born Londoner named -- wait for it -- Charlie Chan. Even though he's a successful hairstylist, coiffing the likes of Wintour, Iman, and Simon Cowell, his hardass Asian mother would like him to get...

Two interesting stories surfaced this week about people who suck at math.

The first had to with an American Institutes for Research report that's created a new international grading index to compare state and national math scores with those of other countries. And guess what? The U.S. sucks...