Oblivious in 1965
I was still in high school when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. I am quite sure it did not enter my privileged consciousness in any profound way [...]
View ArticleWhite House to Sell Vegetables to Local Grocers
When it was reported that the White House was cancelling the “spring tour” season, our intrepid reporter wanted to look into other savings the President and his family were prepared [...]
View ArticleUpon Hearing From the Government
Yesterday morning the phone rang, and I looked at the caller ID: US Govt. Given that we are the bosses of the US Govt, it could be a bit surprising [...]
View ArticleSeat Belts and Privacy Laws
One of my clearest memories from five-year-old-child-me is coming out of the drugstore on Kearney Street in Denver, getting into our new car and hearing my mother say “Goddamn it, [...]
View Article“Trayvon Martin in reverse”
This article offers an important analysis of the deep divide between the right and the left on issues involving guns… ‘This is Trayvon Martin in reverse, only worse,’ right-wingers say By [...]
View ArticleOn Owning A Business in Kailua
Yesterday I posted an ironic blog about the Kailua Neighborhood Board’s resolution to ask the HTA not to promote Kailua as a visitor destination alternative to the more “lively Waikiki” [...]
View ArticleAn Argument for Universal Service
I don’t usually do book reports, but I have just finished Breach of Trust (How Americans Have Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country) by Andrew Bacevich and I am surprised [...]
View ArticleMy Government Shutdown
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog about West Point Grad and Boston University Professor Andrew Bacevich’s book, Breach of Trust, a cogent argument for universal service which [...]
View ArticleMore than 50,000 Gun Deaths Since Newtown
The estimate of 55,000 gun deaths since Newtown is based on real CDC figures for 2010 (two years before Newtown) estimated for January 2013 – through August 2014. This is [...]
View ArticleVendo Vote
With elections just around the corner, I have been thinking about the little man in my glove compartment. He has been riding around there, in his vending machine ball, since [...]
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