Below are links to a sampling of our best, most interesting, infuriating, or just plain funny movies, articles, and essays. Selections for this list are entirely arbitrary. Feel free to make suggestions! The-Ave.US has over 18,500 postings, so this isn’t an index.
MOVIE SHORTS
Geico Chicken Commercial (0:29 min., genre: humor — click here)
Cow cuddling (4:13 min., genre: health and wellness — click here)
Sheep on Trampoline (0:34 min., genre: funny animals — click here)
Looking Ahead to the Future II, the Years of Repair (8:58 min., genre: social activism — click here)
Daisy and Cooper have ice cream (0:42 min., genre: humor — click here)
Funny FAT Animals (6:20 min., genre: animated short — click here)
Wildebeest (0:59 min., genre: animated short — click here)
Oh Sheep! (6:36 min., genre: animated short — click here)
The Black Hole (2:42 min., genre: science fiction — click here)
Modern Educayshun (7:20 min., genre: horror — click here)
“That” Pepsi Commercial (3:07 min., genre: music video — click here)
Revenge of the Roadkill Rabbit (9:57 min., genre: spoof horror — click here)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (excerpt, 2:00 min., genre: comedy — click here)
FEATURE LENGTH MOVIES
Matewan (133:07 min., genre: historical drama — click here)
King Petar the First: Vivodvan’s Bells 1914 (excerpt; 25:15 min., genre: war — click here)
The Edge (119:58 min., genre: Russian feature-length drama — click here)
SERIOUS ARTICLES & ESSAYS
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)
Oklahoma tribes win big Supreme Court victory (7/10/20; 703 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)
MISCELLANEOUS
How this blog has evolved since its founder’s death (10/22/20; 326 words — click here)
How to unblock NBC websites — click here
FEATURED ARTICLES FROM ARCHIVES
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 (2/20/24; 528 words — click here)
GENERAL INTEREST
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)
Third hottest temperature? (8/18/20; 106 words — click here)
Ferdinand the Bull charges firemen battling So. Cal. wildfire (8/15/20, 83 words — click here)
New analysis suggests D. B. Cooper splashed down in the Columbia River (8/4/20; 401 words — click here)
Hallelujah, I found a can opener that works!!! (8/4/20; 487 words — click here)
An engagement photo for a lifetime (7/22/20; comet photo — click here)
CURRENT EVENTS
Jerry Falwell Jr. is in hot water (8/7/20; 74 words — click here)
WHO warns of “long road back” (8/3/20; 473 words — 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
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 if electoral votes are disputed? (9/13/20; 180 words — click here)
Trump’s “MIB” fantasy flight vs. the real danger to America’s stability (9/1/20; 905 words — click here)
What living in a “republic” means (8/31/20; 23 words — click here)
Pentagon’s top general says military won’t evict Trump if he loses (8/29/20; 786 words — click here)
2020 convention speeches (8/27/20; links to videos — click here)
What I think of Trump (8/24/20; 1,329 words; essay, liberal viewpoint — click here)
Liberals are wrong; Trump isn’t another Hitler (8/18/20; 338 words; essay, liberal viewpoint — click here)
Worst president, or most dangerous? (8/17/20; 630 words; essay, liberal viewpoint — click here)
Kamala Harris was born in California, but birthers argue she can’t be vice president. (8/13/20; 971 words — click here)
The journey from FDR’s “New Deal” to Trump’s raw deal (8/8/20; 303 words; essay, liberal viewpoint — click here)
Nuclear Taboo in the era of Trump (8/6/20, 817 words; essay, liberal viewpoint — click here)
The Tortoise and the Hare (7/27/20; 486 words — click here)
Sizing up Trump’s presidency (7/25/20; 4,265 words; essay, liberal viewpoint — click here)
Is something wrong with America’s voters? (7/16/20; 544 words; essay, liberal viewpoint — click here)
CONGRATULATIONS: Sawant makes $200,000! (6/17/15; 276 words — click here)
GENERAL HUMOR, SATIRE, and TONGUE-IN-CHEEK
Gary Larson “Far Side” cartoons embedded in articles (click here, here)
Mexico Introduces New Sport .. WALL SCALING (9/22/19; 595 words — click here)
If obituaries were honest (11/13/15; 609 words — click here)
The Art of Getting Disbarred For Perjury (12/16/13; 1,751 words — click here)
POLITICAL HUMOR & SATIRE
Trump campaign adviser dodges the child support he owes for 2016 campaign love child (9/15/20; 324 words — click here)
They’re in a bus! They’re antifa! (8/30/20; 960 words — click here)
Steve Bannon’s perp walk (8/21/20; video — click here)
Why does Trump’s image appear under Google searches for ‘idiot?’ (8/20/20; video — click here)
Back to school! (8/16/20; 177 words; Trump University satire — 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)
No! to Trump on Mt. Rushmore (8/9/20; 76 words — click here)
Using the Resolute Desk to sell beans (7/16/20; 12 words — click here)
Trump denies ever meeting Putin (8/23/16; photo — 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)
- Debunking the absurd claim that Michelle Obama is transgender (9/15/20; 304 words — click here)
- About that “1981” article (8/17/20; 209 words — 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; 2,228 words; book review — click here)