Donald Rumsfeld, “America’s worst secretary of defense,” died Tuesday, June 29, 2021, days shy of his 89th birthday. I remember when he was a rising star in the Republican Party and some people even believed he’d be president someday. He didn’t come close. But the one-t[...]
Archive for June 30th, 2021
June 30th, 2021 - 7:54 pm § in Science
How to measure distances to stars
This takes a bigger tape measure than you have. (Don’t ask me how I know.) To find out how it’s done, read this article. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
How to be an idiot and look like one at the same time
State Rep. Jim Walsh (photo, left), a Republican who represents the Aberdeen area in Washington’s legislature, sported a Yellow Star of David at a political rally in Lacey on Saturday, June 26, 2021. He was likening “the government’s efforts to protect people from a highly contagio[...]
June 30th, 2021 - 11:42 am § in Misc.
Town loses fight to evict the Flintstones
The Flintstones are there to stay. A woman who bought a Flintstones-themed house in a San Francisco suburb several years ago carried things further by adding a plethora of lawn ornaments and sculptures to complete the effect. Some of the neighbors didn’t like the tourist traffic it brought to [...]
Historians rank Trump as 4th worst president
It’s a real challenge to out-worst the 3 presidents who dragged America into the Civil War and then bungled Reconstruction — that’s a very tough act to follow — and Trump didn’t quite make the cut, but he came close. In updated rankings, 142 academic historians surveyed[...]