Reaction.

"This is Hawaii, the state that promotes foreign products like pineapples (native to South America), Macadamia nuts (native to Australia), cut-flowers that are mostly exotic orchids, heliconias, proteas, gingers and anthuriums (native to a slew of places other than Hawaii), papaya (native to the Americas) and even the batch of 'real' Hawaiian foodstuffs that were brought along on the raft along with the human colonizers who weren't really native either."

--reason.com commenter "jester" in response to "The Fable of Hawaiian Frankencom" (February)

"I submit that the appropriate action for the government to take is to step up and NOT do things. If government didn't dole out favors, corporations and industries wouldn't lobby for them."

--reason.com commenter "Sylviei" in...