Bill White

Pennsylvania

Freelance Columnist at The Morning Call

Morning Call columnist/blogger - commenting on news, judging Christmas lights, offering advice to the lovelorn and eating mass quantities of Musikfest food

Articles

Democratic Party needs to sharpen its message

2 weeks ago | mcall.com | Bill White

Encouraging as it is to see people mobilizing for events such as the nationwide protests, Mondays with Mackenzie, the real local town hall meeting and other attempts to pressure their representatives to grow backbones in the face of Donald Trump’s onslaught of chaos, many non-Trumpophiles have been appalled at the impotent response from congressional Democrats.
Bill White: Trump ruining the idea of America as exceptional place

1 month ago | mcall.com | Bill White

I was having lunch with three golf buddies a few weeks ago, and one of the things we talked about, unflatteringly, was Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the mess they’re making of our country. A woman who had been sitting nearby with some of her friends got up, walked to our table, smiled and put four flag pins on our table. “I’m proud to be an American,” she told us. It was … weird. But it triggered an idea for me.
Bill White: Lower Saucon council meetings, long, loud and awful

2 months ago | mcall.com | Bill White

One of my favorite meals back in my Lehigh University fraternity days was known as Train Wreck. It basically consisted of ground beef, tomato sauce and noodles. We ate mass quantities every time it was served. The fierce competition to get our share of seconds and thirds before we ran out is one reason I’m such a fast eater.
Bill White: When logic and facts vanish lives hang in the balance

2 months ago | mcall.com | Bill White

I attended an event recently where I found myself sitting next to someone in my extended family. For some reason she began talking about the COVID-19 vaccine and how we were told it would prevent anyone from getting the disease, proof that once again our government was lying to us and we can’t trust anything they say. I don’t remember it that way. I politely pointed out that the vaccine was designed to make it less likely we would get COVID and that if we did, it would be less severe.
Bill White: Put your Eagles knowledge to the test

Feb 7, 2025 | mcall.com | Bill White

The last time I offered a quiz on Philadelphia Eagles history, they won the Super Bowl. That’s reason enough to trot another quiz out today as the Birds prepare to face the Kansas City Chiefs. When it comes to sports, I’m seriously superstitious. Two years ago, I made the mistake of altering my lucky outfit at halftime of that Super Bowl matchup between the Eagles and Chiefs, and it cost them the game. I’ll make no such blunder tomorrow.
Fay Vincent, baseball commissioner during three years of turmoil, dies at 86

Feb 2, 2025 | worldbaseball.com | Bill White |Louis Cardinals

About 8 minutes reading time. NEW YORK (AP) — Fay Vincent, who became an unexpected baseball commissioner in 1989 following the death of A. Bartlett Giamatti and then was forced out three years later by owners intent on a labor confrontation with players, has died. He was 86. Vincent had undergone radiation and chemotherapy for bladder cancer and developed complications that included bleeding, said his wife, Christina.
Bill White: Judges select bad writing contest winners

Jan 18, 2025 | mcall.com | Bill White

Although she hated the acrid taste and bite of the cigarette she had just lighted, the woman with tousled gray hair, narrowed eyes and a sneer of a mouth sauntered over to the tired-looking man at the kitchen table and, leaning over so that he could see the bosomy landscape revealed by her unbuttoned blouse and push-up bra, growled at him, “Never think I won’t punish you for all your dark deeds, you despicable snake …” causing him to reply, in weary exasperation, “Oh, can it! I’m Jimmy, not...
Bill White: Good writers turn bad for annual contest

Jan 3, 2025 | mcall.com | Bill White

As he sat bareback on his horse, inspecting his band of brave warriors about to leave for an encounter with troops from the 6th cavalry out of Fort Apache, their smoky eyed, rosy cheeked, lip glossed faces staring up at him, Chief Silver Cloud realized, to his dismay, that the unwritten rules of war paint protocol had been violated and it was time to have a serious discussion with that pesky Avon lady who had recently been frequenting the camp.
Bill White: Test your Christmas-related knowledge with this quiz

Dec 24, 2024 | mcall.com | Bill White

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Maintaining Sanitary Living Conditions

Dec 16, 2024 | survivopedia.com | Bill White

There are a thousand things involved in survival, almost all of which are important. While we all tend to focus on our top survival priorities, there are plenty of other things out there which can kill us, ranging in size from microorganisms to four-legged carnivores. Neither of those extremes cares much about us and the lives we want to live. They’re interested in living their own lives and if that means they need to take us out, they are more than happy to do so.