"Lepers?!"  After saying that, you just better not show your face around
here.  Very, very politically incorrect.  "Victims of Hansen's Disease" or
"Hansen's Disease Survivors" but not the L-word.  And the leper colony on
Molokia is pretty much shut down now.  If you ever get to Molokai, you won't
be going diving so you might as well spend the day touring Kalaupapa.  (
http://visitmolokai.com/kala.html )  It will be an experience even your
jaded heart will feel.

So, yeah, drop me a line.  I'd love to take you out for something nice the
only problem is that there is nothing nice anywhere near the airport.

eeo

"Most would be even more surprised to learn that if the sushi has not
been frozen, it is illegal to serve it in the United States.

"Food and Drug Administration regulations stipulate that fish to be
eaten raw - whether as sushi, sashimi, seviche, or tartare - must be
frozen first, to kill parasites. "I would desperately hope that all
the sushi we eat is frozen," said George Hoskin, a director of the
agency's Office of Seafood. Tuna, a deep-sea fish with exceptionally
clean flesh, is the only exception to the rule."

"Sabine Marangosian, who works in Midtown Manhattan, said she ate
sushi "at least once a week." "I guess I would understand that some
sushi is frozen," she said. "But I would hope that's not the case at
Nobu."

"But Shin Tsujimura, the sushi chef at Nobu, closer to Wall Street,
said he froze his own tuna. "Even I cannot tell the difference between
fresh and frozen in a blind test," he said.

"Even Masa Takayama, whose sushi temple Masa, in the Time Warner
Center, charges a minimum of $300 to worship, said he used frozen tuna
when fresh is unavailable.

"Many sushi bars, in Japan and elsewhere, routinely use frozen fish
when fresh is unavailable or more expensive than the market will
bear.

"In Japan," Mr. Kawauchi said, "50 percent of the sushi and sashimi is
frozen. Only my American customers are so concerned with fresh fish."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/08SUSH.html?ex=1396756800&en=14403a12
46cf158f&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

On the other hand, eating sushi in Chicago apparently enriches the
Moonies:

"Although few seafood lovers may consider they're indirectly
supporting Moon's religious movement, they do just that when they eat
a buttery slice of tuna or munch on a morsel of eel in many
restaurants. True World is so ubiquitous that 14 of 17 prominent
Chicago sushi restaurants surveyed by the Tribune said they were
supplied by the company."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-0604sushi-1-story,0,3736876.story

If I'm still seeing sushi in bed with me in the morning, it was
definitely bad fish and not deserving of respect.

Hunters respect the deer they shoot and eat, sometimes to the point of
putting their heads up on the wall.

Injuns respected the enemies they killed, sometimes to the point of
eating them.

Eating and respect go hand in hand.