Inouye backs Boxer, but McCain is not impressed

The U.S. Senate has long been known for the collegiality among members. Campaigning against fellow senators has been regarded as a violation of protocol, but that has changed.

A week after Hawaii’s U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, winner of the Medal of Honor for World War II combat, appeared in Pasadena, Calif., with Sen. Barbara Boxer to highlight her re-election endorsement by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Political Action Committee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., went on the attack.

"Sen. Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today," McCain said in joining Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in San Diego. "And I know that because I’ve had the unpleasant experience of having served with her."

So much for clubbiness.

Cash-generating TV show helps medicine go down

Experts use all kinds of calculations to determine the state of the economic recovery. But here we have our own measure: the length of traffic delays we’ll endure for the sake of "Hawaii Five-0."

Of course, even if Hawaii’s economy is still struggling, a seven-hour shoot that pushed into the afternoon rush hour for East Honolulu commuters is a little hard to take. But when we start kvetching about five-minute delays, we’ll know the fat-and-sassy days are back.

For now, we’re still hungry. So be there, Five-0. Aloha.