Before Skyline, a few noteworthy news items: Paris is burning again .  Now, more than ever, I'll never go back to this city The conservative Supreme Court acted again, twice, one on  LGBTQ+ rights  and a second disallowing President Joe Biden's decision to forgive  student loans.   Repercussions?  Further damages Republican chances in the 2024 presidential election.  SCOTUS might have saved American taxpayers $400 billion.  I think we are giving away too much to others not me, so the second one is fine with me.  I'll wait a few days to see if they do any more damage ( to Republicans ) on women and gun rights.  These might wait until their next session because they will soon (by early July) go into recess until the first Monday in October. This is a big day for Honolulu.  It has taken half a century, through eight mayors and seven governors, for mass transit to become a reality. Everyone has some kind of gripe about this system.  I've always thought this city needed a ra

Over the next couple of days, I will more closely cover several Supreme Court decisions, including one today which  cast aside Affirmative Action in college admissions .  On the surface you will think that Blacks lost and Whites won, but, what really occurred is that Asians won, Blacks lost and some Whites also were negatively affected.  President Joe Biden strongly disagreed, while former President Donald Trump called it  a great day . So what blood type do you have, and thus more or less susceptible to contracting covid? To begin, what blood type are you?  I don't really remember, but I think mine is A+ or AB?, but not sure.  Will now need to check.  But where? Early studies from China suggested that type A was more prone to being infected, with type O giving some protection. Other studies elsewhere were mixed. A study from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School more recently learned that finger-like projections jutting from this covid virus were very similar

The continuing saga of the Russian mini-revolt is well-explained by  Leonid Bershidsky,  a former columnist of  Bloomberg Europ e.   He is a 51-year old Russian journalist now based in Berlin, having moved there in 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea.  Has previously worked at  Newsweek  and  The Moscow Times .  He has written several books.   But to the topic of the day, is this that impactful summer that will finally convince decision-makers to take global warming seriously?  Possible, but unlikely, for a key reason to be provided. The  New York Times  yesterday said: Today, New Orleans will reach 113 degrees in the heat index. Houston will reach 111. Mobile, Ala., and Jackson, Miss., will also surpass 110. And those are only a few of the places that will experience dangerous heat this week. Summer technically just began, and parts of the U.S. are already seeing the unusual heat that   experts warned about   and that is becoming more common as a result of climate change. About 45 millio

  I've lived for at least three years in Hawaii, Washington DC, California and Louisiana.   Born in Honolulu and, aside from college, three years working for the U.S. Senate and travel, spent most my time in Hawaii. Had whole summers in California with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( twice ) working on laser fusion and NASA Ames Research Center on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. 3 years and 7 months at Stanford University. 3 years and 7 months at Louisiana State University.  With close friends. Today, my nostalgic Tuesday topic will be LSU, for they just won the  76th college world series championship , in what might have been the best ever. Started with 64 teams in tournament play. #1 rated was Wake Forest, #2 Florida and #5 LSU. 8 teams survived the super regionals, those teams above, and Stanford, TCU, Oral Roberts, Virginia and Tennessee. The first time LSU and Wake Forest played, the Demon Deacons won, 3-2.  They faced each other two more times, and