January 22nd dawned still and clear. It was a perfect Hawaiian day, an ideal morning for idle yard-work and occasional refreshing lawn lager. I puttered heavily through the morning, bushwhacking and lopping at the luxuriant tropical jungle that threatened to overwhelm the little frame bungalow. The idea of the birth had slid to the back […]

(Rookie Angel Clarence confers with George Baily in the classic film “It’s a wonderful life. Photo Frank Capra courtesy Warner Brothers). Considering the body of information available on the Miracle in question- that being the birth of a child- I was amazed at the paucity of data on the objective start of onset of the […]

(THE HILTON HAWAIIAN VILLAGE, ORIGINAL HOME OF LEGENDARY SURFER DUKE KAHANAMOLU, WAS PURCHASED BY HENRY KAISER AFTER THE WAR, AND HOME TO THE FIRST MODERN WAIKIKI HOTEL COMPLEX. THE ALI’I TOWER NEAREST THE LAGOON WAS THE ENTRY AND DEPARTURE POINT FOR MILITARY FAMILIES COMING AND GOING FROM THE ISLANDS, SINCE HILTON HAD THE CONTRACT. PHOTO […]

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/navy-intel-officer-warns-of-future-china-conflict/ It is 65 and sunny in Pass Christian, MS, at the moment. Beef-On-Weak Night at Willow seems like a dream. Normally held on the last Friday of the month, this one slid to the fist Friday of February due to Restaurant Week and the looming of Lent. Tracy sold out two steamer rounds of […]

It was packed at the Willow bar. The weather had been warm and sunny the day before, and people decided it was safe to come out. As it developed, it wasn’t, but once out you may as well go inside someplace else, and they all appeared to have decided to join us, and formed a […]

You will either forgive me or not, but there was curious content in the morning message traffic. My body is about half-way back from the Mid-Pacific time zone- maybe about San Diego this morning as I attempt to focus my eyes here on the East Coast. It is a challenge. From moment to moment, I […]

I am back. I flew all night across the Pacific from the Lovely Islands to frozen O’Hare international in Chicago. It feels like a dream now. After my encounter with the arrogant Bureaucrat in the aloha shirt on the steps of the former THIRD Fleet HQ, my dander was up. Who was he to ask […]

The participants in the big retirement started to flee the lovely Island while the Super Bowl was still in progress. I didn’t. There was a marvelous dinner in Waikiki I mentioned, and there was one last thing I wanted to do before departing, since one never knows when one will pop up in the Mid […]

It was Waikiki last night, after that strange event we call the Superbowl. I had a pretty good head of steam going- on the right side of history, of course- and enjoyed the drive down Rt. 99 past the airport and the industrial area around Sand Island, and the Aloha Tower Complex and the old […]

As backdrops go, it is hard to beat the view from Pier Kilo 8 at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. There is a breathtaking view of the Waianai Mountains, remnants of an ancient shield volcano that guard the Makaha coast. In the middle distance lies the vast gray length of the battleship Missouri, BB- 63, […]