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 (5/12/21 — click here)
How this blog has evolved since its founder’s death (10/22/20 — click here)
Plagiarism, the internet, and this blog (5/24/22 — click here)
ANIMATED VIDEOS
Oh Sheep! (6:36 min., genre: animation — click here)
Oh Sheep! music video (2:48 min., genre: animation — click here)
Wildebeest (0:59 min., genre: animation — click here)
MUSIC VIDEOS
Necking With Donkeys (3:30 min., genre: country — click here)
The Gael from “Last of the Mohicans” (3:44 min., genre: soundtrack — click here)
VIDEO CLASSICS
Daisy and Cooper Share Ice Cream (0:42 min., genre: humor — click here)
Geico Chicken Commercial (0:29 min., genre: humor — click here)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (excerpt, 2:00 min., genre: comedy — click here)
MISCELLANEOUS VIDEOS
Cow Cuddling (4:13 min., genre: health and wellness — click here)
Dog Diving Into Leaf Piles (1:07 min., genre: humor — click here)
Dreamcatcher (6:29 min., genre: rock climbing — click here)
Sheep on Trampoline (0:34 min., genre: humor — click here)
Why You Don’t Give An AK-47 To An Ape (0:42 min., genre: humor — click here)
SHORT MOVIES
Black Hole (2:42 min., genre: science fiction — click here)
Modern Educayshun (7:20 min., genre: horror — click here)
Revenge of the Roadkill Rabbit (9:57 min., genre: spoof horror — click here)
The Dentist (6:37 min., genre: western — click here)
FEATURE LENGTH MOVIES
Lenin: The Train (206:08 min., genre: historical drama — click here)
Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (92:20 min., genre: drama — click here)
Tanks for Stalin (128:21 min., genre: Russian drama — click here)
The Edge (119:58 min., genre: Russian drama — click here)
SERIOUS ARTICLES & ESSAYS
How to write a college admission essay (9/19/24; 310 words — click here)
Why do politicians intentionally violate the Constitution? (6/27/24; 1,009 words — click here)
Elections don’t have to be perfect (6/21/24; 394 words — click here)
How to have more by wanting less (2/9/22; 1,266 words — click here)
Is the movie “Reservoir Dogs” an allegory on nuclear war? (9/4/21; 602 words — click here)
Politics: How to stop hating each other (7/5/21; 588 words — click here)
Is insulting a student “academic freedom”? (4/1/21; 560 words — click here)
A brief history of U.S. politics since the 1960s (3/21/21; 869 words — click here)
How America’s civil society corroded, and how to repair it (3/9/21; 951 words — click here)
A brief history of democracy (1/26/21; 274 words — click here)
Vox article says, “Kicking people off social media isn’t about free speech.” Or is it? (1/21/21; 794 words — click here)
How to finally realize you’re a crummy writer (1/3/21; 16 words — click here)
Was the Civil War about slavery? (10/25/20; 1,546 words — click here)
Want to be a lawyer? (10/11/20; 506 words — click here)
Walking a tightrope between America’s two competing philosophies (9/17/20; 995 words — click here)
Reflections on writing (8/27/20; 491 words — click here)
What I think of today’s journalism (8/23/20; 25 words — click here)
Dr. Steve Schwartz, being Jewish, and the Holocaust (8/22/20; 706 words — click here)
How dangerous is QAnon? (8/21/20; 585 words — click here)
The reasons for going to college and what you learn there, (8/16/20; 1,764 words — click here)
Russia’s Vietnam (8/15/20; 2,158 words — click here)
Was Lincoln right to preserve the Union by force? (7/23/20; 692 words — click here)
Should you consider law school? (11/21/15; 862 words — click here)
A liberal view of business regulation (5/3/15; 768 words — click here)
Before the Big Bang (5/4/14; 1,564 words — click here)
Bloggers, libel, and free speech (1/24/12; 2,548 word — click here)
FEATURED ARTICLES
Follow up: Deer crossing lady now famous (11/26/17; 157 words — click here)
Tamir Rice’s rap sheet (5/29/15; 31 words — click here)
You don’t have to be crazy to drive this road but it helps (2/16/15; 109 words — click here)
The most unpardonable sin an academic can commit (2/20/14; 528 words — click here)
GENERAL INTEREST
Why malls don’t have windows (6/22/24; 231 words — click here)
How to keep cats off the kitchen counter (9/3/22; 63 words — click here)
The non-pilot’s guide to landing a plane (5/10/22; 544 words — click here)
How to handle bear encounters (10/10/21; 125 words — click here)
A primer on amateur astronomy (9/7/21; 819 words — click here)
How to remove a bandaid (8/26/21; 405 words — click here)
Primer on home backup generators (2/17/21; 1,405 words — click here)
Creating a home gym (1/26/21; 1,754 words — click here)
Easy way to open cardboard boxes (12/27/20; 105 words — click here)
The greatest threats to humanity (10/25/20; 348 words — click here)
The Frost ornithopter (10/24/20; 214 words — click here)
It’s not a bargain if you don’t need it (8/29/20; 129 words — click here)
How to bag groceries (8/22/20; 554 words — click here)
Hallelujah, I found a can opener that works!!! (8/4/20; 500 words — click here)
CURRENT EVENTS – CHINA
Status report: Will China invade Taiwan? (10/5/2021; 899 words — click here)
Former Aussie PM: How the U.S. and China could avoid war (2/15/21; 1,558 words — click here)
China vs. Taiwan (2/4/21; 202 words with links to resources — click here)
CURRENT EVENTS – GENERAL
Would deporting illegals make housing cheaper? (6/17/24, 922 words — click here)
How much are Republicans and the Supreme Court to blame for gun violence? (2/15/23; 907 words — click here)
A Handmaid’s tale: Who really killed Roe v. Wade? (8/25/22; 384 words — click here)
“I was almost a school shooter” (6/13/22; TED talk video — click here)
Where should protesters protest? (5/9/22; 741 words — click here)
Seeing Ukraine through Putin’s eyes (2/23/22; 1,530 words — click here)
The Ukraine crisis, explained (1/20/22; 1,190 words — click here)
What good people should do about the storm over “critical race theory” (12/23/21; 1,460 words — click here)
How to make school prayer legal (12/13/21; 839 words — click here)
What now for abortion rights? (12/1/21; 625 words — click here)
Should we stop farmers from wrecking the climate? (8/29/21; 354 words — click here)
What the Founding Fathers screwed up (7/4/21; 457 words — click here)
What’s really wrong with police unions (6/27/21; 1,820 words — click here)
When people are wrong, they should be ignored (4/30/21; 311 words — click here)
Black education (4/16/21; 252 words — click here)
Compilation of Capitol riot stories (1/7/21; 19 links to news reports — click here)
“Black lives matter” explained (7/17/20; 122 words — click here)
Is “All Lives Matter” hate speech? (7/5/20; 345 words — click here)
What’s wrong with “white lives matter”? (6/23/20; 453 words — click here)
POLITICS
How the Middle East could cost Harris the election (10/11/24; 1,884 words — click here)
How not to dispute an election (8/21/24; 402 words — click here)
Trump economics vs. Harris economics (8/16/24; 2,243 words — click here)
Is Biden senile? (6/25/24; 671 words — click here)
Nikki Haley is a dud (5/29/24; 565 words — click here)
Save $15.99! Download the Jan. 6 committee report here! (12/22/22 — click here)
Ban abortions or the sewer gets it! (8/20/22; 350 words — click here)
Is Trump a fascist? Will he kill you? (8/16/22; 731 words — click here)
Will Trump go to prison? (7/30/22; 1,213 words — click here)
Still think conservatives believe in “freedom”? (5/21/22; 225 words — click here)
How Republicans plan to seize power (1/15/22; 1,862 words — click here)
Making sense of “MAGA” and the politics of unreason (11/28/21; 580 words — click here)
Seattle activist behind attacks on “critical race theory” (11/19/21; 951 words — click here)
The Guns of January (10/3/21; 1,199 words — click here)
The great peril of Trumpism, and what we must do (9/21/21; 1,246 words — click here)
Why do Republicans lie so much? (8/31/21; 672 words — click here)
Loren Culp’s police dog is a crook (5/17/21; 561 words — click here)
Busting the “welfare queen” myth (5/16/21; 912 words — click here)
Many Republicans agree “trickle down” is hogwash (4/29/21; 341 words — click here)
Understanding politics (2/18/21; 46 words — click here)
Whither the filibuster? (1/29/21; 1,493 words — click here)
Archive of Trump and 2020 election links (1/20/21; 27 links to The-Ave.US posts — click here)
Those silly maps of “red” counties don’t mean a darn thing (12/17/20; 213 words — click here)
GOP senator disparages democracy (10/9/20; 2,157 words — click here)
Rightwing media’s shrieking grievance peddlers (10/4/20; 802 words — click here)
“A Tea Partier Just Called Me Communist,” by Conceptual Guerilla (10/2/20; 810 words — click here)
“Defeat the Right in Three Minutes,” by Conceptual Guerilla (10/2/20; 2,579 words — click here)
What living in a “republic” means (8/31/20; 23 words — click here)
Is something wrong with America’s voters? (7/16/20; 544 words; essay, liberal viewpoint — click here)
GENERAL HUMOR, SATIRE, and TONGUE-IN-CHEEK
Why bother to be rich? (5/18/24; 158 words — click here)
Did they make it to the top? (8/28/22; 663 words — click here)
Bad, bad boomers! (4/4/21; 1,592 words — click here)
Gary Larson “Far Side” cartoons embedded in articles (click here, here, and here)
Running a university like a farm (8/24/18; 593 words — click here)
If obituaries were honest (11/13/15; 604 words — click here)
Private school employee fired for consorting with homophones (7/31/14; 408 words — click here)
The Art of Getting Disbarred For Perjury (12/16/13; 1,751 words — click here)
POLITICAL HUMOR & SATIRE
Wanna watch some political porn? (8/31/22; 892 words — click here)
Is Ted Cruz the Zodiac killer? (5/7/22; 123 words — click here)
Negotiation and compromise (4/18/21; cartoon with article link — click here)
They’re in a bus! They’re antifa! (8/30/20; 960 words — click here)
1981 High School Football Team Photo Leaves Little Doubt that Michelle Obama Was Born Michael Robinson (3/27/15; 1,259 words — click here)
- Michelle Obama’s mother dies (5/31/24; 394 words — click here)
- Should Michelle Obama be banned from girls’ sports? (3/29/21; 287 words — click here)
- Debunking the absurd claim that Michelle Obama is transgender (9/15/20; 290 words — click here)
- About that “1981” article (8/17/20; 209 words — click here)
- Kamala Harris is a man! (8/15/20; 225 words — click here)
- But was Donald Trump born Donna Trump? (8/15/20; 265 words — click here)
- A Post on TA breaks 700! Go figure (6/13/16 — click here)
BOOKS
3 Compact War Histories (8/19/20; book titles and authors — click here)
“A Warning” by Anonymous (12/3/19, 875 words; book review — click here)
Joachim Fest’s “Hitler” (3/10/16; 1,350 words; book review — click here)
“House of Debt” by Mian and Sufi (10/26/14; 2,237 words; book review — click here)