Views by the Bay

A journal from what was once the most beautiful place on Earth

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Outside the Grand Waikikian

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Definitely female. I don't know what made me think of this: it's high time that SJW's turn their attention to changing th...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Where It Oughtta Be

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In a very, very small slice of Houston, a late-afternoon summer squall triggered a local flash-flood warning and knocked out power at dinn...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

The Difficult Path

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Mom sends $hundreds to this company for magazines she barely reads. Sweepstakes? she hasn't won a dime. The following query could h...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Check Out My Number

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The only photo that's necessary. Good looks, athleticism, and popularity are no longer the attribute most important to the opposite ...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

New Life from the Soil

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In Hawaii the flora sprout rapidly. The bananas weren't there when I visited earlier this year. Meanwhile, there are mango, guava, a...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Too Bad We Didn't Get to See (or Smell) It

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Crissy Field ( Time photo) By canceling today's demonstrations in San Francisco, the right-wing group Patriot Prayer did left-wing...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Robots Will Resolve This

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Recently your humble blogger found himself at a car repair shop where guys were standing around jawing about what the untrained eye would ...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

A Good Place

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Window Box Cafe looks different from Denny's and IHOP. American tourists used to--and in many places still do--travel where meals, h...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Jerry Lewis, 1926-2017

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In LA in 1950 ( WSJ photo) Back in the Fifties there was little cross-over between the world of children and the world of adults. There ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

No Good Deed Dept.

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Heading to my aisle seat, I noted that the man in the middle seat next to me kept looking back at a lady who appeared to be his wife. I aske...
Monday, August 21, 2017

Disappointed in the Eclipse (Doughnuts)

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While over a million people are spending thousands of dollars apiece to see a total solar eclipse that will last 2½ minutes, I celebrated b...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

The New Rules Are All So Confusing

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Piss Christ (Time photo) It was 30 years ago, but as the cliché goes, it seems like yesterday that artist Andres Serrano displayed a pho...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Where the Sun Doesn't Shine

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One friend is going to Shoshoni, WY but he won't stay for the antique tractor show. We know at least three different parties who are...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Trump Trough?

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After nearly a year of incessant media pounding (some merited, to be sure), after his abandonment by prominent business allies, after the ...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

The Song and the Man

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Don Ho's statue unveiled at International Market Place this month (SF Gate) Don Ho didn't have a great voice, and I doubt that...
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After spending the first 17 years of my life in Honolulu, I've happily settled in the SF Bay Area. Married with two children, I've worked for five companies, large and very small, in the field of finance and accounting. Education: BA, MBA. Professional: CPA (Inactive)
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