Opinion
Please protect your children from BS spreaders | Whale’s Tales
Among the most useful things I studied in college were debate, and deceptive messaging in advertising.
Opinion
Organized thoughts about my second fight with cancer | Whale’s Tales
It is 12:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 3.
Opinion
Too many hare-brained ideas have hopped the fence | Whale’s Tales
In a United States not so far away and not so long ago, common sense muscled lunatic ideas…
Opinion
The search for strength can be found in the scars | Whale’s Tales
In a dark time the eye begins to see …”
Opinion
Here’s what communist and totalitarian trials really look like | Whale’s Tales
In the 1968 film “Oliver!,” the murderous Bill Sykes’ doomed lover, Nancy, leads pub revelers in a round…
Opinion
Clear communication vs. sticking your head in the oven | Whale’s Tales
As I have written before in this column, I am a word person.
Opinion
Victim energy is a siren song to which we must stop our ears | Whale’s Tales
We find them everywhere we turn.
Life
Careers take flight at Green River College’s aviation program
For much of the flight from the Renton Airport over South King County and back early Friday afternoon,…
Opinion
A better life comes from learning to distinguish between fact and opinion | Whale’s Tales
One night in 2016, my wife, Ann, and I were cruising through the vegetable aisle of a local…
Opinion
‘I must have driven through a barn’ and other stories of grace | Whale’s Tales
My brother, Jack, and I were jabbering on Christmas Eve about all the things we’ve done in our…
Opinion
When old age asks the new year for a dance | Whale’s Tales
One of the important lessons the dawning of each new year has taught me is the futility of…
Opinion
Remembering the joys of Christmas with the family | Whale’s Tales
I remember fondly the build-up to Christmas in the Whale home of my childhood.
Opinion
Looking at common civility through the rearview mirror | Whale’s Tales
What madness overtakes otherwise decent people when they get behind the wheel of a car?
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
When weird fascinations collide with the power of insight | Whale’s Tales
I must have been about 9 years old when I started to do this weird thing.
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.