As did this one. It’s funny. The first seven or eight months we had Abby she barely barked at all, spent most of her time indoors, and generally was a pretty timid dog. The subsequent eight or ten months she’s gotten accustomed to being outside and barking at the passersby. Now she seems to play …
My neighbor’s daughter is getting married this afternoon/evening, and her parents are staying overnight in Waikiki after the wedding and reception. They’ve asked me to dogsit their Jack Russell terrier tonight and tomorrow morning. I haven’t done this in 30 years. What could possibly go wrong?
It’s entirely possible. …a new report from the University of Hawaii’s Sea Grant program states that islands in the Pacific might be unrecognizable in the coming years as climate change makes them hotter, arid, stormy and even disease-ridden. Disease-ridden? Yes. Diseases like cholera and dengue fever which thrive in hot climates might become commonplace. But …
I’m sure every one of you has heard about this story of a gun instructor accidentally shot to death by a 9-year-old girl. He was showing her how to fire an Uzi. An Uzi! This is an Uzi: This is a 9-year-old girl: What idiots thought the one should be handed to the other with …
First Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cushing of Wisconsin will get a Medal of Honor on September 15. Various Senators from Wisconsin starting with Proxmire in the 1980s have been working for it. What did he do? Well, he was on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg on the third day of the battle, with Pickett and two other …
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Emmy producers, why on earth did you think it was a cool idea to put Sovia Vergara [.gif] on a rotating turntable? She obviously thought it would be funny, but still. It was very strange.
It’s certainly not Hawai’i. I grant you that I quit drinking in 2000 and had been a Bud drinker for years before that, so I’m no connoisseur. Nonetheless, I’ve had one local beer in the past year, and it didn’t impress me much. Maybe it’s just that I’ve been away from the taste of beer …
Dear ESPN: You guys surely get attached to certain teams and lose all objectivity. For example, the Dallas Cowboys and Tony Romo have been mediocre for several years. The last time the team made the playoffs was 2009, which was also the last time they posted a winning record. They’ve been 6-10, 8-8, 8-8, and …
From Events This is a working rotary dial telephone, presented to my father on the occasion of his 1970 departure from his job as Public Works Officer, Naval Station Guam. That job encompassed many things, including keeping the utilities working from the telephone system to the electrical grid. It’s in the shape of a latte …