Looking today at the North Auburn home in which I grew up fills me with wonder. As in, I wonder how in the heck we… Continue reading
Many sweeping generalizations stalk our land today, making no distinctions between diverse people and institutions, but lumping them into one steaming mass. Of course, we… Continue reading
Clash between two Democratic candidates
Chriss Moen devotes most of his free time to his fellow veterans, living and deceased.
Ah, the internet, the internet, let us count the many blessings of the internet. As the internet means one thing to this guy and something… Continue reading
I read somewhere years ago — I have forgotten where — that if a person cannot relish the puncturing of a flaming hypocrite, that person… Continue reading
18-story, 400-room resort scheduled to open in fall 2023
Whale’s Tales
For the poor beleaguered voter in the coming elections, I offer this piece of advice — beware of the stealth candidate. The would-be office holder… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
Nobody cares. Nobody is watching. We hear it these days from too many supporters of the former President of the United States, a set intent… Continue reading
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
