Blog Archive

Voting is a right that too many people take lightly. If you choose not to be heard, others will do it for you. Itʻs election day and I only want… Read More »Get Out and Vote Today!

A couple months ago, I went to a training class in Waikiki and didnʻt want to hassle with parking so I caught the bus. When the class finished at about… Read More »Rail in Honolulu

I’ve been hearing a lot of people complain about what they term negative campaigning. These same people tell me that they only want to hear a candidate say what they… Read More »I’m Positive It Isn’t Negative

Maybe it’s just the fact that this is an election year but it seems to me that we’re losing the capacity to engage in reasonable discussions. It isn’t just online… Read More »Communications 101 (Fall 2012)

When I decided to ride the bus instead of drive to work, I knew there would be trade-offs. I had to leave earlier, couldn’t carry as much stuff with me,… Read More »Bus Stop Blues

Introspection: observation or examination of one’s own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself. It occurred to me today that what is lacking in our national discussion of the issues is a sense of introspection. It’s like my mother always told me,… Read More »Introspection Breeds Harmony

If you’ve ever seen the movie “Minority Report”, you probably remember how they used “scientific” methods to detect that someone was going to commit a crime and proceed to arrest… Read More »The Other C Word

I’ve been asked why I continue to blog about current events instead of finding a niche. Stuff like music, movies, dressing dogs in human clothes, or NASCAR. They ask how… Read More »Bang Your Head

I saw a quote from a person saying that a candidate was the “most honest” person he knew. When I first read this, I shrugged it off as being the… Read More »Honesty

I’ve been bombarded lately by a barrage of Facebook posts with titles like “Age Test” and “Do you Remember” links that show a picture of some gadget or toy from… Read More »Old or Seasoned?