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Guest Post: Sheela Jane Menon:The Promise of a New Season

Posted on February 18, 2021 by freecatholic808 — 6 Comments

I don’t know if Saraswati Puja always falls this close to Ash Wednesday. I don’t recall celebrating this festival with the Menon side of my family, though I certainly remember marking other Hindu holidays with them. I’m not sure that…

Speaker Saiki cites Obama to explain failure to raise the minimum wage. Really???

Posted on June 5, 2019 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

While Speaker Saiki’s recent OpEd (Honolulu Star Advertiser 5/27/2019) makes passing reference to “a blue state like Hawaii,” his arguments for why the legislature failed to ensure a raise for working people are more likely to make them see red.…

Remembering my mother, the political junkie

Posted on November 5, 2018 by freecatholic808 — 4 Comments

As I think of my beloved mother on the eve of her passing into eternal life, I revisit notes I shared with my children from my last visit with her: Here is my mother, the Magpie: I noticed her on…