A new video making the rounds on YouTube updates the famously funny “Wassup” commercial, using the same actors but in scenes of grim poignancy. Instead of hawking beer, they show the travails afflicted upon the citizenry during the last eight years. What once made us laugh has turned tragic.
The video reminded me of a Chinese student who visited us for two weeks in 2002 as part of an exchange program that my oldest son took part in at Wilson High School in Portland. “Thomas” — he adopted an English name rather than expect Americans to correctly pronounce his real name — was among a dozen students from Suzhou, a Portland sister city. Read More
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