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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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?

 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »