For the next few nostalgic Tuesdays, I will post on the best hotels I have enjoyed in the past.  I will begin with the Mauna Beach Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii because this was the first luxury hotel I ever experienced. Pearl and I got married on 22December1962, and I recall having part of our honeymoon at the  Mauna Kea Beach Hotel . However, my memory must be faulty, because I checked  Wikipedia  and learned that this hotel opened on 2July1965.  So this must have been our second honeymoon. I was then working as a factory engineer at the Hutchinson Sugar Company in Naalehu, also on the Big Island. The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel: Developed and constructed by Laurance Rockefeller, who fell in love with Kaunoa Bay on the Big Island. Secured a 99-year lease for a 500-acre parcel from Richard  Smart, owner of  Parker Ranch , which at one time was the largest cattle ranch in the USA.  This is interesting. 19-year old John Palmer Parker jumped ship in K...

The   New York Times   this morning provided graphs that showed why Republicans will become a truly minority party if only the pandemic went on for a few more decades.  Well, that's an exaggeration, and that's not what they said, but a higher rate of Republicans is dying from COVID-19: Turns out the death rates were similar until the end of last year.  What happened was that vaccines arrived, and today,  40%  of Republican adults remain unvaccinated, compared with about  10%  of Democratic adults.  Why has this happened?  Disinformation, promoted by  Fox News , Sinclair Broadcast Group and online sources.  The question is if this is because of conservative policy, or because those who watch Fox News are predisposed to be less inclined anyway.     NYT  further suggested that the difference will drop because the new Pfizer and Merck antiviral treatments for those who contract COVID-19 will result in fewer deat...