‘Fretful little bureaucratic douche bags’

Freelance writing is all hell. When I left Maui Time Weekly in early June after five years as editor, I figured my days of chasing and kicking people were long gone. "I'm just a writer now," I told more than one friend. "It's going to be easy now because I just get to deal with professional … Continue reading ‘Fretful little bureaucratic douche bags’

The invisible atrocity

As if we don't already have enough to worry about (global financial collapse, endless wars in the Middle East and Central Asia, the future of network programming), here's an AP story that's gotten very little play but I found on the Honolulu Advertiser website. It says that stupid accidents around the world kill nearly a … Continue reading The invisible atrocity