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May 2nd, 2024 - 1:21 am § in Misc.

Welcome to Steve’s blog

Dr. Steve Schwartz, a University of Washington medical researcher, created this blog to discuss campus issues, and it soon expanded to a wide range of subjects. Although he’s no longer with us, a contributor still posts articles that readers may find informative, interesting, or simply entertaining and funny (read statement of purpose here). Use the search term “handbill.us” to find this page on the internet. To scroll back to older posts, click on ←Previous Entries halfway down this page.

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January 6, 2025: Teaching the Republicans How To Do It

Trump’s re-election certified without drama

Vice President Harris declared, “Democracy prevails,”

and no Democrats objected to results.

Read story here

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Four years ago, Republicans acted like children.

Today, Democrats acted like adults.

They’re not the same.

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April 28th, 2024 - 3:40 pm § in Misc.

In memory of Dr. Steve Schwartz, who created this blog

Professor Stephen M. Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., the founder and proprietor of The-Ave.US, passed away from COVID-19 on March 17, 2020. Read local press coverage here and here. Steve joined the University of Washington Medical School’s faculty in 1967 and had taught there since 1974. He was world-f[...]

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April 28th, 2024 - 1:00 pm § in Misc.

Selected Movie & Article Links

Below are links to a sampling of our most interesting, infuriating, or just plain funny movies, articles, and essays. Selections for this list are entirely arbitrary. The-Ave.US has over 24,000 posts, so this isn’t an index. ABOUT THIS BLOG Welcome to The-Ave.US, an introduction to this blog ([...]

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January 6th, 2025 - 11:55 pm § in Health

First American dies of bird flu

Louisiana health officials announced the first known U.S. human bird flu death on Monday, January 6, 2025 — five years after Covid-19 reached America. They didn’t identify the victim, only saying it was a person over age 65, who had been hospitalized “with severe respiratory sympto[...]

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January 6th, 2025 - 4:46 pm § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Politics

Trump’s Canada nonsense

Trump has to be taken seriously because he’s about to reoccupy the world’s most powerful office. But fundamentally, he’s a crackpot. Canadian prime minister Trudeau resigned on Monday, January 6, 2025 — the same day Congress certified Trump’s re-election (with no drama,[...]

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January 6th, 2025 - 4:09 pm § in Politics

Inside rightwing militia groups

A freelancer infiltrated the Oath Keepers and a militia group called AP3, attended their meetings, secretly recorded conversations, and rifled through their files. He found, among other things, they spied on and doxed journalists and discussed assassinating politicians. But civil rights groups and n[...]

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January 5th, 2025 - 8:41 pm § in Environment

Dam removal is the future

The Elwha and White Salmon rivers in Washington, and the Klamath River in northern California and southern Oregon, are free-flowing again. The Condit Dam on the White Salmon River was breached in 2011 (details here, video here). Removal of two obsolete dams on the Elwha was completed in 2014 (detail[...]

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January 5th, 2025 - 7:48 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Trump’s distorted view of America will haunt him

“To hear President-elect Donald J. Trump tell it, he is about to take over a nation ravaged by crisis, a desolate hellscape of crime, chaos and economic hardship,” the New York Times’ White House correspondent wrote on Sunday, January 5, 2025 (read story here). But the country Trum[...]

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January 4th, 2025 - 10:02 pm § in Politics

How Jordan Peterson mastered the art of intellectual dishonesty

Jordan Peterson, a Canadian academic, didn’t figure out how to get rich as a rightwing provocateur. He stumbled into fame and popularity. His appeal to the alt-right happened by accident. It started with a Canadian law against transgender discrimination, and grew from Peterson’s dislike [...]

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January 4th, 2025 - 8:55 pm § in Science

What if aliens with right-handed DNA helixes landed?

All life known to us has left-handed DNA. Or, stated technically, “all life on Earth builds proteins only out of left-handed amino acids.” Which “poses a tantalizing scientific puzzle: Couldn’t you, in principle, build ‘mirror life’ — life made out of the right-hand[...]

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January 4th, 2025 - 5:52 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Why Republicans get no respect, Part 2

Respect is reciprocal. To get respect, you must give respect. I respect you, you respect me. At least that’s how it always worked until the current breed of toxic Republicans came along. Republicans like Nassau County, New York, County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who ordered flags on county buil[...]

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