Liberals keep losing the biggest, most crucial battles of our times. (footnote: Marriage Equality a rare exception, more on that later). Is it because conservative arguments tend to reduce more efficiently to sound-bites? Do conservative arguments tend to seem more like common sense? Is there some...
Posted July 27, 2025 from Seattle, WA. “Stocks are surging,” reported NPR this morning. While the article contained a strong (and wise) caution that what goes up could perhaps go down, it listed only various strong economic indicators to explain why the Market might be going...
posted from Seattle, WA April 25, 2025 800 Years!- But don't expect a celebration (Pope Francis died as the ad-deadline was upon us. It pains me that at this moment I would be making a public statement that did not express my own sadness at...
Posted from Seattle, WA on December 17, 2024 One Seattle is a terrible plan that will not achieve much density but will succeed in wiping out the remainder of Seattle's urban tree canopy, already ranked low among the great American cities. Northwest Buldings have mostly been dwarfed...
by Ed Newbold posted from Seattle, WA, Dec. 27, 2024. Bill McKibben, a person with immense accomplishments, a stellar individual who cares as much about this Earth as anyone on it--this is not personal! (Photo by Gage Skidmore courtesy of Wikicommons.) DISCLAIMER--this is not an...
Posted from Seattle, WA October 18, 2024 I'm running a new ad similar to my last one in color in the A-section of the Seattle Times on Sunday Octobery 20, 2024. For those who differ in their pick, this is how I feel: Our country has celebrated...
Posted from Seattle, WA on October 4, 2024 This is an ad that will run this Sunday October 6 in color in the Seattle Times. The whole subject gripes me. If the people and culture of the United States understood what they seemed to know in their...
We were surprised to see a no-ethanol option at a gas station in Conway, WA a month ago. It was expensive but worth it. For at least one fillup we weren't responsible for starving the poor of the world and felling the prairies and rain...
posted from Seattle, WA May 11, 2024 I'm running an ad in the A-section of the Seattle Times on May 12, 2024. The ads words, so this is searchable: HEADLINE: Friends don't let friends commit genocide. Israel needs real friends Those who are sharply criticizing Israel and...
posted from Seattle, WA on March 24, 2024 Elias Benitez, who recently bought McPherson’s Fruit Stand on Beacon Hill was asked if he thought it would be easy to keep it going. “What is easy in this life? He replied to the Seattle Times reporter, “Nothing....
I’m running the above ad in the Seattle Times on Sunday December 31, 2023. It calls on the United States to join the overwhelming majority of other Nations of the world—159 Nations-- in calling for an immediate humanitarian Cease-Fire. The headline reads: Listen to the musicians… Thank you...
Posted on January 6, 2023 from Seattle, WA, USA. I’m running an ad in the Seattle Times Sunday edition January 8, 2023 in an effort to bring attention to the stunning accomplishment of Brian Pendleton and Darchelle Worley in observing 376 species of birds in Washington...
posted from Seattle, WA October 5, 2022 The ad shown above is expected to run in the A-section of the Sunday Seattle Times on October 9. Here is the text of the ad: “Washington state must be ready to meet rising air demand” wrote Seattle Times editors, exhibiting...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Jan 6, 2022; edited and rewritten on Jan 7, 2023 Posted January 6, 2022 from Seattle WA (edited Jan 7, 2023) Links to two articles have been posted to Tweeters, Washington state’s birding chatline, that challenge birders to not drive so often...
Posted from Seattle on June 6, 2021. I'm running this ad on Sunday August 15th in the A-section of the Seattle Times. First let me include this link to a story on the Ojibwe Nation's fight against Line 3. 'It's cultural genocide': inside the fight to...
Posted from Seattle, WA August 3, 2021 In frustration over being in the lonely position of not being on the Infrastructure bandwagon I designed the ad below, a curmudgeonly piece of writing to be sure. The third bullet point of the ad contains a statement that...
Posted from Seattle WA on June 18, 2021 The ad shown above should be appearing in the June 20 A-section of the Seattle Sunday Times. The ad credits the Wild Fish Conservancy for it's leadership and activism that is going against the tide of inaction,...
posted from Seattle on June 11, 2021 On June 7, 2021, my new Super oversized larger-than-I've-ever-printed-before print Whales Starboard Super XL was printed in SeaTac at Olympus Press.. Olympus has a Heidlleburg and you can't just press the Print button on those babies. Here are Olympus Press...
Posted March 24, 2021 We've all probably heard of a “Surrogate Mother.” But have we heard of a “surrogate wetland?” Leave it to California to birth the concept. In that state, Rice-farmers are flooding their land during the off-season--turning rice fields into temporary wetlands that can be...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Feb. 15, 2021 There has been plenty of pushback against the pessimism suffusing the messaging around masks and distancing, but most of it has emanated from the segment of society that thinks of empathy as a four letter word. (It...
Posted October 16, 2020 from Seattle WA The ad featured in this blog should be in the Sunday Seattle Times this week (Oct 18, 2020.) In the ad I endorse Joe Biden (and implicitly Kamala Harris) and thank him for his reluctance to sign on with the...
BirdLife International blasts Europe’s so-called “Green Deal” Posted July 1, 2020 By making a devilish alliance with an industry, environmental leaders are stealing any hope the Earth has left to halt climate change. Somewhere, somehow, agricultural biofuels and biomass (burning wood) got an early and permanent blessing...