We were at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., in time to watch the sunrise yesterday morning. And we were at home in Kaaawa in time to pour a glass of wine and watch the reflections of the sunset from over the mountains. That’s a pretty amazing day. So we’re catching up after being away [...]
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I was browsing through State of Hawaii web sites yesterday. Have you noticed the new look of the sites of different departments? It seems they are aiming for some sort of uniformity. I thought that might be a good idea. Then I looked closer, and it became obvious the new look does not involve making [...]
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As the paywalls keep going up, I’m certainly not the only one feeling the squeeze. The problem isn’t that we’re being asked to pay. The problem is that some of the big dawgs are asking pretty hefty subscription fees. In the past, I’ve paid for the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Civil [...]
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Just a few random checks of the news. • Joe Klein, in a Time Magazine column, calls for Eric Shinseki’s resignation (“Ten Years After: A National Disgrace“). Eric Shinseki, the secretary of veterans Affairs, should be the leading advocate for these troops. He should have been everywhere in the days after the massacre, promoting those [...]
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Yes, it’s true. I do occasionally moderate your comments. I don’t have any hard and fast rules to refer you to. If anyone is really into rule making, perhaps you can suggest a workable set of rules. Sometimes I delete things that strike me as potentially libelous or, more typically, are just unnecessarily nasty. In [...]
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Publisher and journalist Dave Pellegrin suggests that it’s time for Civil Beat to become more transparent. Last week Andrew Sullivan announced he was separating his blog (The Dish) from The Daily Beast and taking it independent — to be supported by paid subscriptions. Within a couple of days after making his first appeal, he showed [...]
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If you don’t read anything else today, please do check out this post on my cousin’s blog, ClutterMuseum.com (“Into the heart of whiteness and gun violence“). Leslie Madsen-Brooks is a fine writer and an astute cultural observer (and her other half is no slouch at the keyboard, either). Here’s part of what Leslie says about [...]
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Happy New Year! Taking a moment to Look back at the past year, here’s a list of the posts on this blog that drew the most comments during 2012. This just counts comments, not the number of times any post was viewed. Five of the top ten were related to our local elections, including the [...]
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