When I'm not blogging, I'm browsing. Here are sites and pages that I bookmarked on August 23rd: 'No. 1 earmarks guy' calls them transparent, beneficial: Sen. Daniel K. Inouye defended his earmarks before a friendly crowd Monday at the Keauhou Beach Resort. Those earmarks are transparent and justifiably benefit not just Hawaii residents, but also the federal departments and agencies that are impacted, he said.