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Archive for November, 2017
November 17th, 2017 - 1:19 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge
This painting recently sold for how much? A. 75 dollars B. 1000 dollars C. 22 thousand dollars D. 81 million dollars E. 300 million dollars[...]
November 17th, 2017 - 12:01 am § in Politics
Universal Healthcare
Jon Walker’s series on health care and the path to universal, affordable coverage in the United States. PART 1 This is a critical moment for the future of health care. President Barack Obama’s market-based Affordable Care Act (ACA) has simply not lived up to many of its big promises, and[...]
November 16th, 2017 - 3:10 pm § in Donald Trump, Environment
Keystone Pipeline spills 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota
TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline spilled 210,000 gallons of oil near Amherst, South Dakota, this morning — just 4 days before the Nebraska Public Service Commission decides whether to allow an expansion of this pipeline pushed by Donald Trump across the Oglalla Aquifer, one of AmericaR[...]
November 16th, 2017 - 11:05 am § in Donald Trump, Environment
Trump vandalism
Donald Trump Jr. gloating over an elephant he just shot.[...]
November 16th, 2017 - 1:39 am § in The Ave Scene
Overheard at Starbucks:
Amazon Newbie: “It’s been raining a long time. When does it stop?” Native: “Next July.”[...]
November 16th, 2017 - 12:12 am § in Misc.
The bloody cluster .. centrifuges that still have slavery
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November 15th, 2017 - 8:19 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: Who said that?
(I) “don’t think a single person—twenty-five years after the end of the Second World War, in 1945, and even with the use of their right reason and knowing how to read and write—had ever heard a word about the blind, inexorable and accelerating march of humanity towards the destruction of[...]