Aurora, Colorado, has America’s arguably worst police department. Its cops are infamous. Their own chief calls them “despicable.” So it’s not really a surprise they’re in the news again. Last Friday, July 23, 2021, two Aurora officers responding to a trespassing complai[...]
Archive for July, 2021
July 27th, 2021 - 8:32 pm § in News Media, Politics
Police testify about Capitol riot; Republicans turn their backs
“Senate Republicans waved off police officers’ emotional accounts Tuesday of battling a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as a partisan escapade not worth paying attention to,” Huffington Post said on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 (read story here), with S[...]
Status report: 535 Capitol rioters arrested, 300 more sought
Samuel Lazar (photo), 35, of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, was arrested by the FBI on Monday, July 26, 2021. He’s accused of spraying police with chemical irritants during the Capitol riot. (Read story here, and more details here.) So far, the FBI has arrested 535 Capitol rioters and is looking for 3[...]
July 27th, 2021 - 10:08 am § in Politics
“Bipartisanship? Good riddance!”
Bipartisanship, in the sense of Republicans and Democrats cooperating to solve problems, seems to have been a passing phenomenon in American history, a product of a different time, and no longer with us. A Columbia University historian (profile here), in a CNN op-ed (here), isn’t shedding tear[...]
July 26th, 2021 - 9:48 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Lighthouse
Barra Lighthouse, Bahia, Brazil, was built in 1839. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 26th, 2021 - 8:55 pm § in Misc.
Alaska’s 1st Olympic hero
Alaska was already proud of Lydia Jacoby, 17, for making the Olympic team, which no Alaskan swimmer, male or female, had ever done. She wasn’t expected to win the women’s 100-meter breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympics, but she did, and now Alaska not only has an Olympic swimmer to boast ab[...]
July 26th, 2021 - 7:51 pm § in Environment, Misc.
How ancient Polynesians navigated without compasses
Ancient Polynesians colonized more than 1,000 islands. They didn’t stumble upon them by accident. Read here how they navigated by the stars, wind, and waves — and what that “wayfinding” skill meant to their culture. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 26th, 2021 - 12:07 pm § in Misc.
Olympic flag ruckus
It probably wasn’t a good idea for Japan to bring this flag to the Tokyo Olympics. Read why here. It’s not even Japan’s national flag; this is. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
This is what happens to businesses who cater to extremists
“Evan Hafer just wants the vitriol to stop. The founder and CEO of veteran-owned Black Rifle Coffee Company has received copious hate mail, social media backlash and disparaging phone calls in the wake of a New York Times’ article profiling the company, which paints itself as an organi[...]
China wants to dictate our foreign policy, too
U.S.-China relations have been called “tense” and “stalemated.” That they are. After calling U.S. policy “misguided” and “dangerous,” a Chinese envoy told reporters the “fundamental reason” for tensions is America’s positions on issue[...]