John McCain’s bluster gives Hokulea rough sail

The Polynesian Voyaging Society, which has sailed into many a Pacific port, now has arrived in the Twitterverse.

PVS, already well-respected in Hawaii for educational initiatives and the journeys of the Hokulea, had Twitter abuzz in recent days over an insult from U.S. Sen. John McCain.

McCain said on the Senate floor that the society tops his Pork Barrel Hall of Shame for the $300,000 U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye put in an omnibus spending bill for PVS educational programs. The bill was withdrawn late yesterday.

"Now some people are watching and thinking I’m making this up," McCain chortled. "I’m not making it up."

No, senator, but you might consider a little research before lobbing missiles.

UH marching band hits the big time on YouTube

The University of Hawaii’s marching band missed winning the award for performing the theme song for "Hawaii Five-0" — but it is receiving deserved attention for another football field performance.

Lined up from sideline to sideline in the form of a stick figure topped with a helmet, the band took three steps and booted a make-do football past human arches. As of yesterday, the novel play had scored some 280,000 glimpses on YouTube.

See it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PMqeXX_BiQ