After Hurricane Iwa in November 1982, a few apartment owners in the Sans Souci apartment building persuaded the state to order them to tear down the historic pier. They opted to fill in the remnant rock archway with concrete, thus preventing the natural flow of water and sand and resulting in a barren rocky area on the Colony Surf side. Research has shown that sand renourishment could improve and extend the beach. The urgent editorial plea for school officials to come up with a workable solution to First Amendment issues like the one involving the Kanaloa sculpture at Waianae High School is completely unrealistic. Not even the Supreme Court has been able to do this.
Religion seems a lot like pornography.
No one can define it, but you know it when you see it. The problem is that both spirit and smut are in the eye of the beholder, and people will see what they want to see, sometimes at the expense of what is there. No object has religious significance that is not attributed to it. I once saw Latrell Sprewell with a cross dangling from his ear. The swastika is an interesting-looking cross.