In 1937, Professor Carey D. Miller, the internationally-known nutritionist who established the Home Economics Department at the University of Hawaii, traveled to Japan to meet with colleagues and observe farming and cooking techniques. Click on the photo below to view all of Miller’s photographs from Japan. This was likely part of a longer trip which [...]
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. It would also have been my dad’s 98th birthday. He missed it by a year and a couple of weeks. I was interested to see that we aren’t the only place observing this 70th anniversary. Willamette University, in Salem, Oregon, also has a [...]
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This interesting observation was part of a longer email from a regular reader. I’m sharing it here for the sake of discussion, not as an endorsement of the particular assessments it contains. Dan Inouye on federal funding of the rail project in Civil Beat describes himself as a “realist”. But is he a realist about [...]
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November 22. Another anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. I remember the day vividly. JFK was the president who drew many of us into politics for the first time. He tapped into our fledgling ideals. Then gunned down. I was, what…a junior at University High School in Honolulu. It was [...]
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In an April 2010 entry, I filled in the local history of the former federal mine official named to lead an investigation into the West Virginia mine disaster at the Upper Big Branch coal mine that killed 29 miners. J. Davitt McAteer had been a young attorney associated with Ralph Nader when he was dispatched [...]
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Three items today all deal with the 1st Amendment in some fashion. From the National Security Archives comes word of the availability of all published editions of the Pentagon Papers in a searchable format that “allows for a unique side-by-side comparison, showing readers exactly what the U.S. government tried to hide for 40 years by [...]
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Ken Conklin emailed this comment yesterday after running into trouble getting through my spam filter. It points to some interesting information, and I thought it worth sharing. The links to the Morgan Report lead to contemporary accounts of the events of 1893 taken during testimony given under oath before a U.S. Senate committee. Hi, Ken [...]
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Last week, a friend left a very critical comment about my shout-out to Ken Conklin for his critique of recent writings of David Keanu Sai. I promised to get back to the issue. Here goes…. Should I apologize in advance that this is longer than I wanted it to be, and I realize few people [...]
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