FOUL-FEATHERED FRIENDS In September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noting a recent uptick in cases of “live-poultry-associated salmonella,” repeated its earlier (apparently largely ignored) alert that people should not be kissing chickens (or ducks or turkeys). CDC noted the recent popularity of urban egg farming, but reminded “hipster” farmers and faddish … [Read more...] about NOTW: Goat yoga, bottling the Ganges and the perils of kissing chickens
Football
Drew Toonz is amazed that football may actually be interesting this year
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Oceanic Time Warner Cable Would Like To Continue Its Maui County Monopoly Another 20 Years While Hawaiian Commercial And Sugar Burns Residents And Its Own Mill
OCEANIC WANTS CABLE MONOPOLY FOR 20 MORE YEARS For the last 15 years, Oceanic Time Warner Cable has been Maui County’s sole cable TV provider. And it’s been pretty cool, right? They provide us whatever broadband speeds they like in exchange for whatever they wish to charge us, and if we don’t like it we can cut the coaxial cable and walk away. Oh, and if they want to take a … [Read more...] about Oceanic Time Warner Cable Would Like To Continue Its Maui County Monopoly Another 20 Years While Hawaiian Commercial And Sugar Burns Residents And Its Own Mill
Frontline Eviscerates NFL On Players’ Brain Injuries – Long Live Football!
Football is a major part of life in America, and especially here in Hawaii. Our state lacks pro teams in any of the major leagues, so the University of Hawaii provides sports/entertainment uniting threads that help bind our islands together. Here on Maui, high school football carries the same near-mythic importance as that of just about all the other small towns on the … [Read more...] about Frontline Eviscerates NFL On Players’ Brain Injuries – Long Live Football!
Christ Returns And Wedding Blues and Football Follies
CAUGHT ON VIDEO: CHRIST’S RETURN “If the Messiah descends from the Mount of Olives as foretold in the Bible,” wrote the Los Angeles Times in an October dispatch from Jerusalem, the two largest Christian television networks in the U.S. promise to cover the arrival live from a hilltop in the city. Daystar Television has already been beaming a 24/7 webcam view, and Trinity … [Read more...] about Christ Returns And Wedding Blues and Football Follies