Whale’s Tales
Many crack-brained ideas are riding the winds in this country, noxious seeds bound for the ears of sympathetic legislators. And given the divided state of… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
Fresh pools of blood, tears and fury. If past is prologue to the future, we are already on the way to forgetting the latest spasms… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
Like others lately, I have been avidly following the Jan. 6 Committee’s hearings into the attack on the U.S. Capitol. It’s been a fascinating watch.… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
This Sunday, like many folks across this nation will do and each in their own way, I will remember my own father, Maurice G. Whale.… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
Late last month, a small Texas city joined an ever-expanding list of cities and sites that none of them ever wanted to be on. Formerly… Continue reading
I have thinking lately about goofy, patently absurd notions. The sort that people would have laughed out of doors not so long ago, but now… Continue reading
Friends and colleagues gather to pay tribute to Green River College’s first president.
Whale’s Tales
I have been thinking a lot lately about the Prohibition Era in the United States and the fiery, brook-no-argument crusaders who pushed for it. Like… Continue reading
Not so long ago, one could have called me a dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core skeptic about cryptids. Cryptids. You know Bigfoot, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil,… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
With the approach of Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my own mother, gone 16 years ago this month, how much I… Continue reading
Fentanyl, heroin, meth, firearms and large amount of cash found
Whale’s Tales
The past is like a foreign country — they do things differently there. Oddly enough, I’ve been thinking about those words lately in light of… Continue reading
Witnesses say car reached over 100 mph before smashing into another vehicle
Whale’s Tales
It is a July day in 1969, and I am with my family at Lake Surprise. I have just finished first grade in Mrs. Foster’s… Continue reading
To say that anything is possible is to condition the sinister, pitfall corollary that nothing is ridiculous. So you told me, dad. All I can… Continue reading
19-year-old man dies from single gunshot wound
Whale’s Tales
Those who know me know me know I’m a bit of a stickler about language. Not so much about the grammar, although of course that… Continue reading
Auburn man operated storefront businesses in Kent and Renton that fronted as legitimate pawn shops.
Whale’s Tales
As one small part of the often derided “legacy media,” I am aware that what I am about to say won’t find sympathy with many… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
I was born late — exactly three weeks — despite my mother’s earnest efforts to speed the process along with various over-the-counter elixirs. I don’t… Continue reading
