Yes. They started out in southern California about the same time as the Beach Boys, except they did covers of stuff like “Justine” by Don & Dewey instead of surf music. Probably the first group to be referred to as “blue-eyed soul.”

Yes, Hawaii has a state-wide system run by a state Department of Education, which includes operation of the state-wide public library system, funded by the state legislature instead of local property taxes. This has been true since the Territorial days. But even with that, there are better schools where people want to…

California. It’s the gas chamber.

I think so too, and a latino man who is no older than 50 or maybe 55. Both presidential candidates should pick VPs in about that range. Trump will turn 70 next week and Clinton in October of 2017. Warren will turn 67 in about two weeks (6/22/17), so she is probably too old for serious consideration.

At least he didn’t make any references to Road Rules. Or The Real World.

I have been complying with this directive for years.

You have always had to be careful wearing red baseball caps. I was wearing one about 2 years ago in a Costco and a kid called me over to ask how to operate the propane barbecue grill. Also, one should never wear any baseball cap with a suit or sport coat, with or without a tie. Any photo of Donald Trump or Michael…

A good example of that was his interview with Shirley McLaine. Letterman had previously often made jokes about Cher. When Cher came on his show after this, he asked her why she hadn’t come on his show before, and she replied “Because I thought you were an asshole.” When Letterman interviewed McLaine and she thought…

I used to see Richard Simmons on Letterman’s show in the 90's and at that time I think that Letterman brought him on because Simmons’ loud, up-beat, outgoing personality was a natural contrast to Letterman’s grumpy curmudgeon, and thus an easy way to get laughs. I remember one show where they did a taped bit about…

L. Z. Granderson predicted this on ESPN “Around the Horn” on Friday.

I am not certain about New York’s law, but in many states, a mental disorder can also be a reason to reduce the state of mind necessary for a murder conviction to a lesser state of mind for manslaughter. For example, if a murder statute requires an “intentional or knowing” state of mind, a mental or emotional…

Axed him what?

“Tantrump”?

On #4,there are probably people all over Hawaii re-writing this as “People think that the dog is my pet, but it’s really my lunch.”

It must mean the first chain. I can remember independent stores that sold records, although most of them were stores that also sold some musical instruments, music accessories (like cases and stands), and sheet music.

Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969), is the U. S. Supreme Court case that held that speech can only be criminally punished if it it is intended to incite and is likely to incite “imminent lawless action.”

Yeah, play in Sapporo, in the Sapporo Dome no less. Sapporo Beer’s marketing director should be fired for missing this opportunity.

Maybe go with RsBI instead of either.

“Wife makes you go”? With this man it is more likely “giving his granddaughter a ride.”

I believe the withdrawal of an invitation to Dawkins in the UK was because he had criticized Islam in the same manner he had criticized other religions. Similar to what happened to Bill Maher at University of California.