HOOVER DAM IS BECOMING OBSOLETE The river is running dry, and soon the reservoir will be empty. Read story here CLIMATE-INDUCED WARFARE BEGAN AT LEAST 13,000 YEARS AGO Read that story here NOT AS “GREEN” AS YOU THINK: ELECTRIC CARS HAVE MORE “EMBEDDED CARBON” THAN GAS CARS Read that stor[...]
Archive for May, 2021
May 27th, 2021 - 3:22 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
You won’t believe who Republicans blame for the Capitol riot
A Yahoo News/YouGov poll taken from May 24-26, 2021, found that 73% of Republican voters blame the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection on ““left-wing protesters trying to make Trump look bad,” while only 23% blame Trump. Look. I hate to say this, and I don’t like to stereotype, but these peo[...]
May 26, 2021: Big Oil’s day of reckoning
Yesterday wasn’t a good day for the fossils in suits who run fossil-fuel companies. “Three of the world’s largest oil companies faced a major reckoning” on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, “over their part in climate change,” newsmagazine Vox said in a story here. The gory de[...]
May 27th, 2021 - 1:22 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Crazy passengers, flying fight clubs
Cooped-up people are piling into airline seats, and bringing their fists with them. With planes flying again, cabin incidents are soaring. The FAA said on Monday, May 24, 2021 (here), “Since Jan. 1, 2021, the FAA has received approximately 2,500 reports of unruly behavior by passengers, includ[...]
May 26th, 2021 - 11:00 pm § in Biden, China, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Health, Politics, Science
What if the lab leak theory is true?
“Last summer,” an Atlantic article (read it here) begins, “a University of Michigan virologist … published an essay on the need to ‘rethink’ some basic research-safety practices in light of the coronavirus pandemic. But he and his co-author—another biosecurity-b[...]
A conservative student picked a fight over diversity, then claimed to be a victim
At the University of Iowa, a dental student used the school’s listserv — intended for professional announcements only — to disseminate his political views. Like other students who had violated the school’s listserv policy, he was summoned for a “professional misconduct [...]
Anti-vaxxers will do it for money
They won’t do it to save their own skins, but they will for a free lottery ticket. On May 12, 2021, Ohio’s governor (a Republican!) announced the “Vax-a-Million program,” under which the state would announce weekly million-dollar winners for 5 weeks. Only Ohioans over age 18 [...]
May 26th, 2021 - 10:55 am § in Law and Courts
Stupid road rager
Finding this gunman shouldn’t be hard. There can’t be very many silver-colored Maseratis in Washington, D.C. (Read story here.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 25th, 2021 - 8:16 pm § in Law and Courts
Tamir’s killer wants his cop job back
Timothy Loehmann (photo, left) is back in court trying to get his job back. (Read story here.) Loehmann was the trigger-happy rookie cop who shot Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy, in a Cleveland public park in 2014. Rice was playing with a toy gun. Loehmann and a veteran officer were sent to the [...]
May 25th, 2021 - 7:21 pm § in Health
Covid-19 infections “exceedingly rare” in vaccinated people
Covid-19 infections “are exceedingly rare” in fully vaccinated people, ABC News reported on Tuesday, May 25, 2021 (read story here). Based on reported cases, the statistical odds of testing positive after being vaccinated are 1 in 10,000, and most of those had mild or no symptoms; of bei[...]