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“Hawaii v. Illinois” - the battle for Barack Obama as a favorite son. Can’t we all just get along?
Actually, that headline looked like a college football or college basketball game.
When the economy tanks, Spam and similar canned meat or meat substitute make a comeback.
Time Magazine’s Joel Stein wants his readers’ help in naming [...]

Went up the east coast after going up the Pali Highway and finding the Pail Lookout again during the day. The wind up there was going close to 30 mph, but it was awesome. After about an hour of driving up amazing coasts, we pass the Polynesian Cultural Center and go on to Romy Shrimp [...]

Breakfast: we went to Zippy’s, a local 24 hour diner chain which serves typical Hawaiian food, such as plate lunches, chili, and saimin, which is basically soup noodles. P- had the fried chicken and chili platter, while I had the Zip-min, which is basically a huge bowl of wonton mein soup with other goodies. Not [...]

Saturday: Went to Shangra-La, the Doris Duke estate. We got out of the hotel like 5 minutes before the tour was supposed to leave, and that was downtown. We missed the video, but barely got to the bus just before it was getting ready to leave. We then rode to the other side of Diamond [...]

We went to the Bishop Museum Friday morning. This museum holds the primary collection of Hawaiian historical artifacts. We took two guided tours and saw a short hula demonstration. The second tour went through the garden and explained the uses of the various local plants, including ti,the leaves used for wrapping and thatching, and noni, [...]