Opinion
Thanksgiving and the Whale kitchen’s eternal warmth | Whale’s Tales
Looking today at the North Auburn home in which I grew up fills me with wonder.
Opinion
The ‘ignoranting’ of Americans in the age of false narratives | Whale’s Tales
Many sweeping generalizations stalk our land today, making no distinctions between diverse people and institutions, but lumping them…
Opinion
The cost we pay for having a marketplace of ideas | Whale’s Tales
Ah, the internet, the internet, let us count the many blessings of the internet.
Opinion
We all need to acknowledge the devils in ourselves | Whale’s Tales
I read somewhere years ago — I have forgotten where — that if a person cannot relish the…
Opinion
My fellow Americans, we need a political middle again | Whale
For the poor beleaguered voter in the coming elections, I offer this piece of advice — beware of…
Opinion
There’s nothing partisan about recognizing the truth | Whale’s Tales
Nobody cares. Nobody is watching.
Opinion
Here’s the supreme irony behind so-called states’ rights | Whale’s Tales
Many crack-brained ideas are riding the winds in this country, noxious seeds bound for the ears of sympathetic…
Opinion
To prevent future violence, we need to learn what’s in us | Whale’s Tales
Fresh pools of blood, tears and fury.
Opinion
Seems we didn’t see what we saw, or so say the gaslighters | Whale
Like others lately, I have been avidly following the Jan. 6 Committee’s hearings into the attack on the…
Opinion
So much in me, good and bad, I trace back to my old man | Whale’s Tales
This Sunday, like many folks across this nation will do and each in their own way, I will…
Opinion
The search for common ground in our national gun conversation | Whale
Late last month, a small Texas city joined an ever-expanding list of cities and sites that none of…
Opinion
The frustrating clash between reality and conspiracies | Whale
I have thinking lately about goofy, patently absurd notions.
Opinion
Roe v. Wade and the road we have been down before | Whale’s Tales
I have been thinking a lot lately about the Prohibition Era in the United States and the fiery,…
Opinion
Here’s a theory on why people embrace all those crazy theories | Whale’s Tales
Not so long ago, one could have called me a dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core skeptic about cryptids.
Opinion
Never miss a chance to treasure your mama | Whale’s Tales
With the approach of Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my own mother, gone 16…
Opinion
Could we pull together like the Ukrainians are doing? | Whale’s Tales
The past is like a foreign country — they do things differently there.
Opinion
Music at the intersection of past and present | Whale
It is a July day in 1969, and I am with my family at Lake Surprise. I have…
Opinion
Watching the social media and cable news train wreck | Whale
To say that anything is possible is to condition the sinister, pitfall corollary that nothing is ridiculous.
Opinion
Writer goes on a tear about flabby language | Whale
Those who know me know me know I’m a bit of a stickler about language.
News
Leader of theft ring sentenced to six years in federal prison
Auburn man operated storefront businesses in Kent and Renton that fronted as legitimate pawn shops.