The woman dubbed “Bagel Karen” (photo, right) who berated a bakery employee after being refused service for going maskless explained, “I’m a Christian and I don’t cover my face.” In other words, she’d rather make other shoppers dead than be caught dead wearing a cloth even [...]
Archive for March, 2021
March 25th, 2021 - 7:10 pm § in Business
A weird business model, explained
“Owners of a New Jersey [gym] are offering free memberships to people who don’t get the COVID-19 vaccine,” The Hill reported on Thursday, March 25, 2021. Read story here. The way I see it, this will reduce their sales to zero, because anti-vaxxers won’t pay, and people worrie[...]
March 24th, 2021 - 6:18 pm § in Misc.
The AR-15 pistol
The popular AR-15 rifle, a weapon designed for war, can be tweaked in endless ways. Shown here is a rifle/pistol hybrid that can be hidden under a coat. This was the type of weapon used by the Boulder, Colorado, shooter in March 2021. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 24th, 2021 - 3:19 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
PPE thief nabbed
“The University of Pittsburgh’s former director of emergency management stole more than 13,600 face masks meant for school employees and students and sold them online in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic,” ABC News reported on Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Read story here. “[...]
March 24th, 2021 - 11:33 am § in Misc.
Suez Canal blocked by stuck ship
The Suez Canal is still blocked a day after a container ship ran aground and got stuck, despite efforts by tugs to free it. Traffic is backing up, and shipping companies are weighing rerouting ships around Africa, a much longer and costlier route. Read story here. I don’t know how they plan to[...]
Strip Capitol rioters of veterans benefits?
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ; photo, left), a USMC veteran and member of the House Veterans Affairs committee, says veterans and service members who assaulted the Capitol on January 6, 2021, should be “stripped of all benefits.” About 1 of every 8 of the Capitol rioters, or nearly 2,000 of t[...]
March 23rd, 2021 - 9:25 pm § in Foreign Affairs
Is Australia’s parliament a whorehouse?
Sure sounds like it. “This week a whistleblower alleged that Coalition staffers were swapping videos of themselves engaging in sex acts in Parliament House, including on the desk of a female Coalition MP … [and] claimed that the building’s prayer room was often used for sex and sex wor[...]
March 23rd, 2021 - 8:48 pm § in Law and Courts
The cost of an unconstitutional law
“Louisiana’s taxpayers could be forced to pay nearly $9 million in legal expenses after the state’s failed effort to enforce a 2014 abortion law … nearly identical to a Texas abortion regulation … struck down by [the Supreme Court] in 2016,” CBS News reported on T[...]
March 23rd, 2021 - 6:42 pm § in Misc.
Biden grants relief to defrauded student borrowers
President Biden will grant relief to defrauded student borrowers denied by Betsy DeVos, Trump’s billionaire education secretary. DeVos scrooged on debt relief, and even that existed only on paper, because she held up hundreds of thousands of relief applications for years. The students were mis[...]
March 23rd, 2021 - 4:49 pm § in Law and Courts
“I hope and pray we never have a mass shooting in Boulder”
So spoke Boulder city attorney Tom Carr in 2018, when he drafted a municipal ordinance banning assault weapons from the Colorado city of over 100,000 residents. “With some exceptions, the 2018 ordinance largely banned the possession of assault weapons within city limits, describing them as [...]