That sufficiently dramatic for you? Good reporters stick to reporting, but I'm going to draw from my nearly six years of living on Maui and make some pretty big conclusions about the future of this island. I'd like to say this place has changed dramatically since I arrived, but it really hasn't. And that's a … Continue reading The future of Maui
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Leaving Maui, Part III: Things I didn’t do
Editing Maui Time Weekly was the best job I ever had. It was tough (I usually put in around six days a week getting the paper out the door) but it was also fun. I got to be snide, I got to play pundit and I got make the rich and powerful (or, at least … Continue reading Leaving Maui, Part III: Things I didn’t do
Leaving Maui, Part II: Things I did
I arrived on Maui on Aug. 28, 2003 as something of a misfit. Rather than spend my life working so that I could move to a tropical paradise, I had actually rarely given living in Hawaii any thought. Instead, moving to Maui meant a promotion–in this case, from a general assignment, sometime investigative reporter at … Continue reading Leaving Maui, Part II: Things I did
Leaving Maui, Part I: Things I’ve seen
Since I'm moving to Sacramento May 13 (booked my flight and everything) I've decided to write a give a kind of retrospective look at my nearly six years on Maui, before this blog starts commenting on more California-centric topics. Today I'll write about how much Maui has changed since I moved here Aug. 28, 2003. … Continue reading Leaving Maui, Part I: Things I’ve seen
Reason #138 why journalism is dying
Euphemisms and cliches. They're strangling journalism, you know. Clogging up the sink like tea leaves is how I believe George Orwell put it in his essay "Politics and the English Language." I choked on more than a few this morning while listening to this Associated Press story about U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on NPR. … Continue reading Reason #138 why journalism is dying
Happiness at the DMV
And no, I'm not being either ironic or sarcastic. This morning, I had a great experience at the Kihei office of the County of Maui Department of Motor Vehicles. I was there to get a copy of my truck's Certificate of Title (I accidentally shipped off the original with a bunch of books last week) … Continue reading Happiness at the DMV
Okay, don’t Run and Hide!
With no sense of irony or responsibility, CNN.com is reporting that swine flu "hysteria" is sweeping the nation, and that this is not really a good thing. "After a week of headlines about the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, many emergency rooms and hospitals are crammed with people, many of whom don't need to be … Continue reading Okay, don’t Run and Hide!
Run and Hide! Run and Hide!
So this year's big doomsday threat to humanity is swine flu (H1N1 to you scientific types out there). Can't turn on the radio, television or log on to the Internet without seeing some story like this one from CNN filled with terrifying phrases like "worldwide outbreak," "potentially pandemic virus" and "the number of confirmed cases … Continue reading Run and Hide! Run and Hide!
Military-Speak gone mad
I was watching this History Channel program a while ago and realized that, at least publicly, military officers speak a language that's exactly half technical jargon and half stale cliche. The reason for this, I believe, is that it thoroughly eliminates the possibility of any original thought falling into civilian ears. Everything that comes out of … Continue reading Military-Speak gone mad
How come Republicans like teabagging so much?
So let me get this straight: Yesterday "tens of thousands" of people (Republicans) across the country (estimated population 307 million) rallied and protested the Obama Administration's "government spending and taxation" by chanting slogans like "no more spending" and waved signs saying "Over Taxation is Tyranny" and, in at least one case, threw a box of … Continue reading How come Republicans like teabagging so much?
Anthony Pignataro 