Fifty-some years ago, when I was on staff at Honolulu’s superb art museum, I passed one of the curators in a hallway and casually said, “How’s it going, Lew?” His face darkened and he growled, “OK, I guess … considering it’s another one of these god damn beautiful days!” Poor guy. He was from Minnesota…
That’s a phrase you often hear in these islands and it’s more apt than ever in light of the violence that occurred the other night in Charlottesville. Of course we have racists here, but the fact is, being a racist in Hawaii is just not practical because everyone who lives here belongs to a racial…
There have only been a few occasions during my lifetime when I have thought seriously about what a nuclear attack would be like. The first was during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 when thoughtful, intelligent, serious people—Russian as well as American—brought us back from the brink. About a year after that, right here…
The media has come in for a lot of abuse recently, some justified, most of it not. You may have already seen the following list, but it’s funny, it’s timely, and there are more than a few grains of truth to it . . . and recent events make it relevant…