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April 7th, 2014 - 4:26 pm § in Misc.

Husky Basketball WINS! Point Guard Speaks Out For Union As Team Wins NCAA Championship

Star Point Guard, Gets Award  As Outstanding Player, Needs Food Shabazz Napier, point guard for the national Div. 1 Husky basketball champs and the outstanding player in Monday’s final game,  recently told reporters he understands why student athletes need a union: Napier  told reporters th[...]

April 7th, 2014 - 1:12 pm § in Misc., The Ave Scene

What is wrong with King County Prop1?

Prop 1 is a last resort effort to pay for public transit in King County.  It is a last resort because all other rational alternatives have been closed by the Replican dominated state legislature.  I will vote for this but am pissed off at having to do so. The Prop would add .1% to the […][...]

April 7th, 2014 - 10:42 am § in Misc.

South Carolina: THE Ave candidate pulls ahead of Tea Party opponents to Linsey Graham!

 Lindsey Graham looks to be in deep trouble according to a recent poll of likely Republican Primary voters in South Carolina.   Lee  Bright is dominating the crowded field of challengers, and both trends seem to be building. Bright, who polled more than Nancy Mace, Bill Connor and Richard Cash [...]

April 7th, 2014 - 10:19 am § in Misc.

Pope gets his own magazine

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April 7th, 2014 - 9:50 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene

Do UW Students Need Busses?

Over at the AAUP listserv, Robert Wood notes: I saw this interesting article in the Seattle Times about how the possible KC Metro transit cuts may negatively affect students, especially those with long commutes:  I note also that The Seattle Times appears to be taking a neutral stand on Prop 1, whi[...]

April 7th, 2014 - 8:24 am § in Misc., Russia

BREAKING NEWS: IMPERIALIST RUSSIAN LOYALISTS DECLARE SECESSION FROM UKRAINE

  In a repeat of America’s colonization of northern Mexico and formation of the República de Texas on March 2, Japan’s efforts to settle Japanese in Korea, and China’s colonization of Tibet, 1836, Russia’s settlers have declared impendence for Eastern Ukraine. IMPERIALI[...]

April 7th, 2014 - 7:57 am § in Misc.

BREAKING NEWS: Number of Uninsured Goes Down

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April 7th, 2014 - 4:56 am § in Misc., Science

Knowsitall Award: James Watson on His 86th Birthday

  Today we award the Knowsitall Award for Academic Arrogance to James Watson for his amazing success in taking credit for the work of Rosalind Franklin. There is a general misunderstanding about the Nobel Prize.  The award os not given for the scientist, but for the discovery and only for a[...]

April 7th, 2014 - 1:56 am § in Misc.

BREAKING NEWS: What A Credible Lead Sounds Like

An Australian navy ship towing high-tech ping detection gear borrowed from the U.S. Navy heard a ping that lasted for 2 hours and 20 minutes.  Then, doubling back, it picked up two distinct pings for 13 minutes.  A commercial jetliner has two black boxes, each with a pinger, so if plane wreckage i[...]