I always enjoy Mr. Westneat’s writing and have at least twice agreed with him. Once was at a poker game when I got him a beer and he said something like: “You’re alright, Tom”. Though I admit I was on the verge of revoking my agreement because my name is Mike. But then, who needs to be THAT hung up about names? Curious? I hope so, because if not you’ll miss this gem of a column by selfsame Danny Westneat. If you have the stomach for it, after reading Danny’s column, come back and read below the link to see what I think. Wait! I saw you thinking of just looking now, but trust me, Danny is the professional writer here, not me, so you’ll want to read him first. The most intelligent of my readers will read him solely.
Danny Westneat | 'Ira' Spring Mountain of trouble | Seattle Times Newspaper
I know that without a naming board we'd have even more strife over trivial matters (in the larger context of a human condition offering war, famine, disease, death, disability, crime...well, like that), but there's something forced about someone voting to reject honoring a person by naming something after him/her just because it "felt forced". Maybe we should have a naming board appeal board, and then a sudden-death naming board trivia contest to determine which board gets to be the top board. With the exception of Danny's writing, which is always scintillating, the whole naming thing leaves me, well, bored. How about we leave it Mt. Spring, though all of us here in the Other Washington will know that Mt. Spring is really just an abbreviation for Mt. Ira Spring? Just a thought…MB
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