Is there any example of a human tribe or people that does not or did not have a religion prior to 1860? And if, as I suspect, the answer is no, could it be that science replaced the need for religion?[...]
Archive for April, 2021
April 3rd, 2021 - 9:48 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Watch Gonzaga beat UCLA (video)
Watch the spectacular game-winning shot at the buzzer by Jalen Suggs in overtime play in a 2021 Final Four playoff game on Saturday, April 3, 2021. Gonzaga then lost the title game to Baylor, 86-70, on Monday, April 5, 2021. https://youtu.be/uulIiQQp7ts Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
What is “bipartisan”?
Politicians love to call policies and/or legislation “bipartisan.” The terminology, which implies broad support across party lines, makes what they want to do sound more respectable (whether or not it is). So, needless to say, the word gets bandied around a lot — sometimes in ridi[...]
Suez Canal accident is causing a temporary sex toy shortage
The nearly week-long blockage of the Suez Canal delayed hundreds of shipments, including this one: “A pleasure boat laden with sex toys has been blocked from entering the Suez Canal, causing widespread frustration for customers worldwide. The ship carrying around 20 containers full of ‘dildo[...]
April 2nd, 2021 - 11:59 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Michigan GOP party chair calls elected Democratic women “witches who should be burned at the stake”
“The University of Michigan Board of Regents has censured regent Ron Weiser, who chairs the Michigan Republican Party, over comments referring to three of the state’s female Democratic leaders as ‘witches,'” The Hill reported on Friday, April 2, 2021. Weiser is a regent, but now [...]
Boehner suggests Fox News was Conspiracy Central during Obama years
Former GOP House Speaker John Boehner, in a forthcoming book, says his efforts to dissuade then-Fox News boss Roger Ailes (photo, left), who died in 2017, from putting conspiracy nuts on the air went nowhere. CNN, which has previewed the book, says “what Boeher writes about the role Fox News a[...]
Wisconsin governor demands $145,000 from Trump for state’s election lawsuit legal expenses
Wisconsin’s Democratic governor has filed a formal demand in federal court for “$145,000 in legal fees the state spent to defend against the former Republican president’s unsuccessful effort to overturn its 2020 election results,” Reuters reported on Thursday, April 1, 2021. Read[...]
April 1st, 2021 - 10:01 pm § in Donald Trump
Trump stiffs ex-bodyguard for cheeseburger tab
Donald Trump is famous for not paying his bills. (Whether he also cheats on his taxes is for prosecutors, and ultimately the courts, to determine.) Even tiny debts, it seems. A guy who claims to be a multi-billionaire still owes his former bodyguard $130 for money the bodyguard loaned him in 2008 to[...]
Is insulting a student “academic freedom”?
A professor at an Ohio public college sued his employer after being written up for calling a transgender student “Mr.” in class. Nicholas Meriwether (photo, left), a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University, claims a First Amendment speech and religious right to call a student se[...]
Kamala Harris gets a new home
Back in June 2020, I wondered who would be the next tenant of this pretty house. One of the possibilities I floated then was Kamala Harris. (Read that posting here.) The correct answer, for a time, was “nobody,” because the building was undergoing repairs. Now, finally, Harris and her hu[...]