Snipers On Santa’s Roof

The Salahis are still front-page news for crashing the state dinner at the White House on Nov. 24. Nine evenings later, how effective was the security setup at the lighting of the national Christmas tree? Well, for starters there was no guest list (probably because we would not be rubbing elbows with el presidente, or caressing [...]

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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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