The Senate vote is expected to be close. Because public opinion will play a key role in the outcome, both sides are planning major ad campaigns, with Democrats focusing on abortion rights and health care. Read story here. [...]
Archive for July, 2018
July 14th, 2018 - 8:42 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
How Democrats plan to fight Trump’s Supreme Court nomination
July 14th, 2018 - 1:34 pm § in Misc.
THE-Ave Links: Relevant to UW
Today UW My conflict with the UW AAUP Governance at the UW Chapter 28 Academic unions Husky logo, Is THE Ave a part of the UW? Racism UW racism Aprikyan affair [...]
July 14th, 2018 - 9:38 am § in Politics
Speeding GOP legislator tells cop he’s above the law
When an Arizona legislator was pulled over for driving 97 mph in a 55 mph zone, he bragged that he sometimes drives 130 or 140 mph, and told the sheriff’s deputy to “not waste his time because he has legislative immunity,” CBS News reported Saturday. He happens to be wrong. Arizona[...]
July 14th, 2018 - 3:12 am § in Misc.
Storm the Bastille
French revolutionaries storm the Bastille[...]
July 14th, 2018 - 1:47 am § in Misc.
On Being KKK
Cynthia Ford-Pustelnik FACEBOOK those poor men, they have really small hands-and never learned to use those small hands. I feel sorry for their partners. A good protest would be really hot women and men, nude, with signs that said “we love you and your small hands! You don’t have to be[...]
July 13th, 2018 - 12:39 pm § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
An Argument that The Trump Kim Summit was Not a Failure
2018년 7월 13일 금요일 Five Myths about the Singapore U.S.-North Korea Summit Meeting In the mass media, there are too many misconceptions about the U.S.-DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or North Korea) Summit held on June 12 between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un[...]
July 13th, 2018 - 11:59 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
Why Is The UW Attacking Me?
Dear Colleagues, This is an update for UW faculty and others who have been following my story. As a bit of background for those who may not know me: I am a tenured professor at the University of Washington and a very successful biologist. Among other things, five of the UW’s current facu[...]
July 13th, 2018 - 12:09 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
How did Seafair get started?
The Golden Potlatch Festival was organized and held July 17 – 22, 1911 by the Seattle Carnival Association The slogan: “A hot time at a cool festival.” July 17th was chosen as the the date when, in 1897, two tons of gold arrived in Seattle from the Yukon on the steamship Portland. A mile-l[...]
Coming to America to Learn About Slavery
Chinazor Onianwah This is shocking. I admire Chimamanda for her success but her revelation that she did not learn about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in high school in Nigeria is shocking to me. I went to high school in Nigeria and I learned everything there was to learn about the slave trade tau[...]