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

Bill White: In Trump’s world facts are inconvenient, irrelevant

1 week ago | mcall.com | Bill White

My wife and I recently returned from a Danube River cruise — no, it’s not blue, the waltz notwithstanding — and we had a wonderful time. One of the many pleasures of these relatively small river cruises is all the interesting people you get to meet from around the world. This time around, we spent most of our time with Canadians and Australians, who seemed to enjoy our company once they determined we shared their low opinion of our president.
Sometimes you just got to have a little common sense

1 week ago | millercountyliberal.com | Bill White

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Bill White: It’s your pet peeve and you’re welcome to it

1 month ago | mcall.com | Bill White

I have a favorite T-shirt that says, “Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”It’s drawn from one of my favorite movies, “The Big Lebowski.” If you’ve never seen it, you’re severely deprived. Great performance by Jeff Bridges as The Dude — I have another T-shirt with his face on it and the word “ABIDE” — and a wonderful cast of other characters.
Democratic Party needs to sharpen its message

2 months 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

Mar 29, 2025 | 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

Mar 15, 2025 | 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

Mar 1, 2025 | 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...