Dear Israel, you make it very hard for your allies to defend you when you kill 10 or more peace activists trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza. Your claim that said activists were armed terrorists won’t wash. From the NYT: At the request of Turkey, The United Nations Security Council met in emergency session …
Here we are on a national holiday, one that’s traditionally thought of as the first unofficial day of summer, and ESPN has no baseball on its schedule. Baseball, you may recall, has been called the summer game. The same thing has happened before, on July 4, of all days. What’s going on here?
Pardon me while I wipe a tear from my eye. The old alma mater won its softball game today too, so it plays for the NCAA Division II National Championship tomorrow. Hawai’i Pacific’s record is 49-6; they’re ranked #3 in the country. They’ll play Valdosta State, 50-8 and #2 nationally, at 9:00am HST Monday. Wow. …
Capping an already-great day for UH sports, the Rainbow baseball team hung on to win the Western Athletic Conference Championship 9-6. Weird game. They committed five errors but also turned four double plays. Yay guys!
The Wahine did it! Jenna Rodriguez hit a two-run, two-out walk-off homer as the University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine stunned No. 1 seed Alabama, 5-4, today to reach their first Women’s College World Series. That despite a 14-strikeout performance from the Tide’s Kelsey Dunne, who ended her year with 353 strikeouts on the season and …
Hawaii earned a split of today’s NCAA super regional doubleheader against Alabama to force a decisive third game on Sunday for a berth in the Women’s College World Series. Alabama overpowered Hawaii 8-0 in the opening game, but the Rainbow Wahine bounced back for an 8-7 win in the second game, snapping the top-seeded Crimson …
A couple of weeks ago Jay Rosen, the NYU Journalism professor who writes Press Think, was asked to contribute to a feature the WaPo Sunday Outlook section ran called “Twelve Things the World Should Toss Out”. Jay suggested doing away with the hoary old Friday night PBS program “Washington Week in Review”. His point was …
Attention Borders floorwalkers: When your shift starts, please familiarize yourself with the CDs and books stocked at the registers. Should a customer come to you looking for a particular item which he can’t find on the shelves, before you search in inventory in the storeroom, ask yourself “Did I see that up front?” This will …
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. The true rules were the same everywhere and everywhen for every part of the universe, you didn’t have special cases for different surface appearances and exceptions whenever it was convenient, that was what humanity had learned over the last three thousand years, not to mention that the mind …
I don?t have a whole lot of interest in future Lost spinoffs and the like, but you know what I would like to see? A novelization. Hire a good writer, pare away some of the unnecessary tangents the show took, and turn the whole Lost story into a book. I think that could give the …