HECO promises to “shed some light on the situation.” The lights immediately go out. My new cartoon on the utility that can’t keep the power on but can always find a way to raise your rates.

Sing, O Muse, of the ‘Herculean’ effort that could not tame the Cretan Bull of Planning and Permitting, a maddened beast of code and chaos that now stampedes over a cliff, crushing all hope in its path.