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June 30, 2006

Beverly Harbin

In the deck of cards that is Hawaii politics, Bev Harbin is the joker. But setting up a website to say so with cartoon drawings put one local blogger in Harbin's crosshairs. She sent him a threatening letter, lamenting the online lampooning as a liability in her political aspirations — and waving the big stick of litigation to get him to take it down. Being a practical person, he relented. But the story isn't over. The tiff was picked up by other local blogs and discussed at HawaiiThreads.com, and netted an excellent write-up in the Honolulu Advertiser, a segment on HPR, and an AP wire story.

Harbin's efforts to silence one critic's lampooning of her eminently lampoonable political antics have, not surprisingly, backfired. The blogger's cartoons have a bigger audience than they ever had before. But, as the Advertiser piece notes, her actions in this relatively small scrap raise much bigger questions about free speech and the flawed laws she used as a weapon to stifle it.  MORE...
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June 03, 2006

Another summer...

Another summer, another home project. For the past two summers running, it's been my front porch and steps. I feel very fortunate to even have a front porch. It seems like a non-brainer in Hawaii's semi-tropical climate - a big shady overhang to keep the sides of the house from being toasted and trasmiting all that heat inside - but you'd be amazed (if you're not here; sadly, you'd be quit used to it if you were) at how many homes don't have 'em.

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