That’s the question posed by a Scientific American article published on May 12, 2021 (read it here). The author adopts a statistical approach, which isn’t quite satisfying, because it doesn’t fully take into account the, well, human factor. Hard to tell, actually, because: “W[...]
Archive for May, 2021
May 21st, 2021 - 11:05 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Meet Liz Cheney’s child-raping primary challenger
“Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R), who’s challenging Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for her House seat, acknowledged … he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18,” the Casper Star-Tribune reported on Friday, May 21, 2021. (Read story here.) He says, “So, bottom lin[...]
America’s worst governor declares, “I have only begun to fight”
“The applause for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from a ballroom full of Republican activists was loud and long — and it happened before the Florida governor even took the stage. … “With more than 40 months before November 2024, in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, the race for[...]
How to provoke a conservative
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May 20th, 2021 - 8:20 pm § in Politics
Defiance
A Republican congressman bragged on Twitter about throwing a mask warning from the House Sergeant-at-Arms into the trash. Whatever Republicans are, they’re not a law-and-order party (but we already knew that). Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 20th, 2021 - 8:07 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Cops killed him, then said he died in a car wreck
It took two years to get the bodycam videos. Now, his family knows why. Ronald Greene wasn’t innocent. He led Louisiana state troopers on a high-speed car chase following a traffic stop. But he didn’t die in a crash, either. When the cops caught up with him, they dragged him from his car[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: GOP pandemic relief plan
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Trump allies want more sham “audits” of 2020 ballots
“In a bid to bolster former President Donald Trump’s lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 election, Trump’s Republican allies are now seeking Arizona-style audits in other swing states,” CNN reported on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Read story here. So far, only one such “[...]
May 20th, 2021 - 4:41 pm § in Politics
Maricopa County urged to replace voting machines turned over to GOP “auditors”
Arizona’s secretary of state, after consulting with election experts, has warned Maricopa County election officials to replace the voting equipment turned over to a private contractor hired by state senate Republicans to conduct a partisan “audit” of 2020 election ballots, the Wash[...]
May 19th, 2021 - 10:49 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Grand Teton
A climber on Grand Teton’s famous Exum Ridge climber’s route. (Click on photo to enlarge) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]