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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?

“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power” (Benjamin Franklin) “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm… Read More »Turn of the Screw

The campaign season is in full swing and, as usual, money is at the heart of the ability to reach voters with a message. A recent article in The Atlantic highlights the… Read More »Campaigns and Money

As with most man-made disasters, the series of financial ones in recent years were caused by a combination of greed and hubris. It would be easy to pin this all… Read More »How Much Money is Enough?

August 11, 2012 is Primary Election day in Hawaii. As recent media reports have pointed out, our voter turnouts have sometimes been downright dismal. Why is open to debate with… Read More »Why I Vote

The curse of living on an island is that it makes it easy to place limitations on ourselves. We have to worry that something said or done will insult the… Read More »Ideas Are Life

It’s been a year since the deadly shooting in Norway by a deranged ultra-rightist claiming he was killing brainwashed children. To mark the anniversary, survivors, family members of the victims, and… Read More »Norwegian Wood – Like an Oak

During the Great Depression, Hollywood drastically cut their ticket prices and Americans responded by making the movie house the place to retreat from the dismal world around them. Some say… Read More »Tragedy in Colorado

The terms bi-racial and mixed-race irritate me because we’re all members of the, one and only, human race. If anyone tells you differently, they’re just spoiling for a fight. This… Read More »Black, White, or Technicolor?