The race between Rep. Howard Berman and Rep. Brad Sherman for the newly configured 30th congressional district, in the San Fernando Valley, is a demonstration of raw human tribalism and our eager propensity to fight over most everything.
When I first met George Mathew some three years ago in a business gathering, I remember an acquaintance introducing him as "a young man with immense capital" to invest in Singapore's fast-paced economy.
The Indian rickshaw-puller, Chinese sweat-shop worker, Vietnamese paddy field farmer and the Indonesian mason are not at all concerned, whatsoever, with the disintegration of the Eurozone or the toxic debts of American banks.