Dare I say it? I’m finally sick and tired of watching Hillary Clinton impersonating a chameleon as she takes on the colors of the crowd she’s with at the moment in her now desperate run for the White House. Hillary chugging a beer and downing a shot while spouting off about her love affair with [...]
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I was in the tiny Kaaawa post officeyesterday morning when a woman turned around and announced that she thought I hadn’t been writing enough about the cats recently. Can this be true? It always seems like I have to fight off the cat tales in order to retain some semblance of normalcy, but now here’s [...]
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When I scanned the headlines this a.m., the Star-Bulletin caught my eye with what looked like a great way to illustrate rising prices–a bag of rice. But I was disappointed to find that the story, “Rice bag price tag will boil over“, turned out to be an AP story and not a local product. The [...]
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Does a weekend count when it’s consumed by the need to find stuff to feed into TurboTax? I vote “no”. The House Clerk forwarded a message to all House offices without comment at the end of last week containing simply a link to a Honolulu Advertiser item on government e-mail policies. The item, by Treena [...]
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Another night at the Lind’s table in Kaaawa. This time a very simple meal. Home cooked chicken soup. We roasted chicken on Sunday, ate leftovers for a day or two, ended up with a bag of bones. Meda remembered that I threw remnants of an earlier chicken extravaganza into the freezer sometime back and I [...]
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I just learned of the death of my cousin, local poet, novelist, and lawyer Michael McPherson. He died this week at his home in Waimea on the Big Island. Our grandmothers were sisters. Does that make us second cousins? That’s Michael, at the left in this photo, listening to my mother at a family gathering [...]
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It looks like there won’t be newspapers available in street racks anywhere in the Villages of Kapolei, at least according to the city’s view. April 7, 2008 2:30 p.m. To All Publishers: We have been informed that sidewalks along private streets may not be permitted for the placement of general publication newsstands. Permits will not [...]
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We must have all had a good time at my sister’s birthday dinner in Waikiki. Good enough that I forgot my computer when we left my parents’ house after returning there for birthday cake. I woke up this morning without my normal back-up of bloggable snippets of information set aside over the past 24 hours [...]
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