I’ve always meant to dedicate space on this blog to the exploits, the travails, of Michelle Wu, mayor of Boston since 2021. Immediately following her election, I subscribed to the Boston Globe to follow her policies, and opened a couple of Google Docs for notes and scratch thoughts on, say, Mass and Cass. How indeed would she fulfill one of her major campaign promises and solve the city’s homeless problem? Well, as I discovered, the answer was “slowly.” I ended up not writing about Mayor Wu simply because there wasn’t really anything [for me] to write about, and also because this is a blog about Asians, not their scurrilous Western counterparts. So it looks like this blog’s actual introduction to Mayor Wu is gonna come in response to something that happened on The Daily Show. That’s about as much as my brain can output. … More Gotta Be Number One at Something