Palin Disses Hawaii

In my one post about Sarah P., I basically wrote her off and predicted she’d go away. Despite (or perhaps because of) having lived in Alaska and having interviewed her and the Todd-ster before moving to DC, I don’t have much interest in blogging about Palin minutae. But, I can’t exactly turn up my nose [...]

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Presidential Pidgin

Last night I showed Bill some video clips of late great Hawaii comedian Rap Reiplinger. Admittedly, Rap’s routines use so much Hawaii slang, or pidgin, that it can be difficult to pick up on a lot of the jokes if you’re not kama’aina (local). I imagine that for a non-Hawaii person, watching him is a little [...]

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