Two terms to remember. Railroaded: “If you railroad someone into doing something, you make them do it although they do not really want to, by hurrying them and putting pressure on them.” ad hominem (from Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary): Main Entry: 1ad ho·mi·nem Pronunciation: \(?)ad-?hä-m?-?nem, -n?m\ Function: adjective Etymology: New Latin, literally, to the person Date: [...]
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Mr. Duke and Ms. Maka were born in 2002 on a sofa bed in the little Waikiki apartment that I use as an office. I created all sorts of nests around the edges of the room. Their mother ignored those and sat in the middle of the sofa. By the time I arrived, she had [...]
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I’m interested in reader reaction to this question. At present, I don’t really have an advertising “policy” except that I’ve tucked a few national ads in the sidebars, with only minimal control from my end on the content. I can, and have, excluded specific advertisers because their views/values are just too contrary to my own, [...]
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It didn’t take House Judiciary Chairman Jon Riki Karamatsu very long to prompt Common Cause Hawaii to raise an alarm. Yesterday Karamatsu’s committee quickly passed HB 2249, which he introduced, that would remove certain restrictions on corporate campaign contributions. It is a single-referral bill, meaning that this was its only review by a committee in [...]
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Things look like they may be turning around for Black Press, the Victoria-based company controlled by David Black that owns the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Mid-Week, the Akron Beacon-Journal, and over 100 small community newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. The main source of public information about the company’s financial situation are the regular reports issued by [...]
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Several people have asked for my thoughts on last week’s announcement that former Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple will be editor of Peer News’ local startup. I can say, first of all, thanks to Ryan’s Hawaii Blog for his rush transcript of Thursday’s conference call in which Temple and Pierre Omidyar took questions from [...]
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The University of Hawaii-Manoa Faculty Senate adopted a strongly-worded resolution last week criticizing Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw for bias and violations of university procedures and practices in the conduct of the search that led to the selection of a new director of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii in 2009. The draft resolution, which is available [...]
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Saturday morning in Kaaawa. This layer of broken clouds added a different texture to the morning. This was probably 25-30 minutes before sunrise.
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