"THE SHORTEST DAY OF THE YEAR " 'Michael Herr' (Aloha Friday)

Renowned author Michael Herr is back guest-blogging on this awesome Aloha Friday  about how he spends his time during the solstice time of year...  Make sure and check out Michael's website at http://www.michaelherr.com/

ALOHA FRIDAY

December 23

It's Aloha Friday and it's . . .

THE SHORTEST DAY OF THE YEAR

Aloha folks. For the shortest day of the year I'll try to write a short article.

I think I spend an inordinate amount of time reading "news" articles on the Internet. Some of what I read makes me laugh. Some of it makes me cry. So, for the shortest day, here's a brief roundup of what I've been fascinated by lately.

1) German scientists are growing new skin from the foreskins of circumcised babies. I imagine they'll get better and better until they can produce full human beings who are truly pricks.

2) A UFO spotted earlier being towed on a flatbed truck through a Kansas town may merely be an Air Force X-47B unmanned drone. Well that's good to know. But leaves unanswered the question, why are they always unmanned drones? Aren't there any unwomaned drones?

3) The Shroud of Turin turned up in the news with a report that it was possible made by a burst of ultraviolet light, like a laser. But there were no lasers back when it was made. So, space aliens you think?

4) Kim Jong Il died and the biggest problem with his death was that it screwed up a "30 Rock" subplot. How inconsiderate of him.

5) Two female Navy petty officers kissed when one of them returned from deployment . . . and no large group of hate-mongers was there to protest against them. Pretty amazing.

6) But the story of the past week that really got to me was the one about Gendercide in India. In that country boys are more highly prized than girls since if you have a girl you'll eventually have to pay an enormous dowry to marry her off. If you have boys you'll be hauling in those enormous dowries. So in India families work not to have girl babies, and abort millions of female fetuses each year. See the problem folks? With all those abortions there are fewer and fewer girls for all those boys to marry.

Anyhow, the shortest day is past and things are looking up. From now on each day gets just a little longer. I can already feel summer just down the road.

Okay folks, see you next week.

Aloha and good news. Michael's fifth book in the Kohala Coast Mystery series is now available for the first time "The Old Queen and the Maui Maiden" in paperback from  http://www.lulu.com/  or as a Kindle ebook from http://www.amazon.com/  Just type in the title either place.  The book took Michael 2 years to complete this highly anticipated sequel.

There's still time to order a complete set of Michael's Books for the Holiday's. Buy all 6 books for only 18.00 including P&H. The books make great stocking stuffers...
http://www.michaelherr.com  or order his new book "The Old Queen and the Maui Maiden" from www.lulu.com 
 
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