Oahusurfer at 50
Oahusurfer
- Location
- Manoa, Hawaii, Hawaii Nei
- Birthday
- February 02
- Bio
- Surfing when possible since 1964. Writing when inspired since recently.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I wont bother to
paraphrase if you read all of
Aristotle
youll find it on
your ow…”
November 22, 2009 08:02PM - “Phil, I can see just
fine. My mind and eyes arent
clouded by
silly fairy tales
of…”
November 22, 2009 03:21PM - “Dude, your candidate is
insane. crazy. a loon. I
realize you
see her
differently…”
November 21, 2009 02:26PM - “I saw no fiction here,
only names changed to protect
the
guilty. Fantastic
post.…”
November 21, 2009 02:11PM - “James, this is a great
piece. nice work.
If
you are willing to sit and go
over sc…”
November 20, 2009 12:28PM
Oahusurfer's Links
Boob Job
The phone rings. I vaguely recall that number, long since deleted from the directory. It's my ex. Well, one of em'. Hey, I'm not young and I get around.
She wants to get together. Me say no. Hang up. 3 days go by. Another call. She really wants to see me… Read full post »
The Big Bang EXPLAINED!- Bubble Theory
How many would be philosophers have begged the question, "Were there nothing, who might notice?" ...
Of course among those who would are MIT nerds who, in another string theory equation, may have the answer to where we came from, why the Bang makes sense and if there is a God… Read full post »
Religion Believes in Evolution!
Rationalism Lives!, what a comfort to see many on OS approach religion in ways similar, in the context of the times, to Kant and the others. That is to say rationality tells them what they've been told is not true yet there is something there. My God, faking his own death,… Read full post »
Watching Iran reminds me of ... AMERICA
Young people, lied to, cheated, forced into conscription-
finally stand up for themselves and are ... beaten and brutalized
by fellow "citizens".
The footage from Tehran is to me deja vu all over again. I'm a kid
with a draft-dodging roomate and San Francisco and Berkeley are
under seige. The youth, w… Read full post »
The Old New New Deal
I am re-posting this in response to the several naysayer opinions which, FALSLEY, state infrastructure improvement, etc. through our Great President's OUTSTANDING Plan(s) will not be of benefit.
Sorry, my completely lost, misguided, and, very selfish, conservative friends. Your policies are trash, ga… Read full post »
Don't say it's the Last Resort ...
The Eagles chronicled westward escape on the last song of their biggest album. They stopped the lyrics in my then hometown, Maui's Lahaina.
The floodgates were open and the music became a self-fulfilling, though inevitable, prophecy.
But what times they were that inspired them!
The uber-hip and ju… Read full post »
The Good Life -- Working for the Richest Man in the World
The current economic climate has me thinking about the cyclical nature of all things, and just what it means to live The Good Life.
Up, down go markets. I'm in college in the 80s, attending the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. The US is doing OK, we are doing phenomenally. Waikiki… Read full post »
Why Religion?
Why?
We can't be sure when it started, hominids may have had the instinct, neandertals for sure did, killing the "human" only angle.
The beginnings are no mystery (though the mysteries eventually begat our half-baked ... only used half the mystery ... re-animation tale) the source is plai… Read full post »
President Obama - the HAWAIIAN prez
Everyone marvels at soon to be President Obama - he's brilliant, he's black and he's beautiful ...
All true. And he's Hawaiian. But, the odds aren't high you know what that means, to him, to me, to us Islanders, to the world.
Much is said about his mother, grandparents and his… Read full post »
Hawaii and The Bi-Racial Discussion
Hoo-ray, we have the first black president. One of my friends of African descent says, with great satisfaction, "Just wait till they hang his portrait in the White House, all those white dudes then, bam, some pigment!"
Yet, no one has been tagged by the 1% rule BS more than Obama.… Read full post »
The Race Discussion - The Hawaii Petri Dish
Tribalism ... the most primitive of impulses remains the most stubborn and most difficult to eliminate.
Thank God, seriously, for modern science. Those of us who follow such things now know, without doubt, what we refer to as race doesn't exist -- other than Homo Sapien.
Just melanin, that's it. How… Read full post »
09 means I'm 50; Sting's 56
I was born in the 50's. So was Sting. He wrote a song about it. I love that song.
My heroes are all surfers but Sting gets honorable mention. This life's soundtrack skips right from hard rocking with the Who to pogo-ing with the Police -- and Sting, cool as… Read full post »
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