A Florida school is under fire for photoshopping student yearbook pictures. Read story and see more mangled photos here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Archive for May 23rd, 2021
Why the GOP descended into lunacy
In 2012, two political scientists wrote an essay for the Washington Post (read it here) that was startlingly prescient: The Republican Party, they said, was becoming “”ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dis[...]
May 23rd, 2021 - 6:02 pm § in Misc.
Simone Biles’ double pike (video)
First female gymnast to do this vault in competition. Watch video below and read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 23rd, 2021 - 2:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Prison for white cop who brutalized innocent black man
A federal judge sentenced Brett Palkowitsch (photo, right), 33, a white former St. Paul police officer, to 6 years in prison for kicking and allowing a police dog to maul a black man, a Minneapolis news outlet reported on Friday, May 21, 2021 (read story here). Palkowitsch mistook Frank Baker (photo[...]
May 23rd, 2021 - 1:37 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
No-bid contract
When governments buy goods and services, they usually do so through a bidding process, but not always. “No-bid” contracts earned notoriety under George W. Bush, where the term became associated with cronyism, political favoritism, and corruption — the most prominent example being t[...]