We know where the bodies are buried.

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Recipe: Easy Pork Butt

Calling this a "recipe" might be a little grandiose, but it's a great way to get a main dish going with minimal effort and maximal deliciousness. What we call pork butt is actually the shoulder. 1) Buy a pork butt. It will probably be somewhere in the 5-10 pound range. If you're lucky enough to have …

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Author Interview: Mark Panek

  Mark Panek is a Hilo-based scholar and author and a professor of English.  He is the author of two books on sumo: Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of Chad Rowan (A Latitude 20 Book) and Big Happiness: The Life and Death of a Modern Hawaiian Warrior, which won the 2012 Hawai'i Book Publisher's Association's award for excellence in nonfiction. …

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The Musubi Murder Cover Reveal!

Mahalo to my publisher, Five Star/Cengage, and to Ed and Deirdre at Encircle Graphic for a fabulous cover design! A book cover has to grab your attention, and in a fraction of a second, tell you what kind of reading experience you're in for. This cover clearly and colorfully signals a lighthearted murder mystery set in Hawaii. There's a skull, which portends a murder, but …

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Education should be run “more like a business.”

Right? And the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. For-profit schools spend more on marketing and recruiting than on instruction.  (Amateurs.) 22.7% of those who had attended a for-profit college had defaulted on their student loans three years after the loans became due. At public institutions  the rate was 11%.  For students who had attended …

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