Update (8/25/21): Ravnsborg will plead guilty to misdemeanor traffic violations, NBC News reports (story here). South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, a Republican (of course), killed a man walking on a road Saturday night, September 12, 2020, while returning home from a fundraiser. He calle[...]
Archive for August, 2021
August 25th, 2021 - 8:25 am § in Politics
GOP attorney general killed a man and reported hitting a deer
August 24th, 2021 - 7:24 pm § in Foreign Affairs
Will the Taliban endure?
Andrew Latham, a Canadian academic (c.v. here) who teaches at a Minnesota liberal arts college, doesn’t think so. His argument is the Taliban are a “constellation of factions and tribes, drawn from different ethnic and linguistic groups” that will dissolve in the absence of a commo[...]
August 24th, 2021 - 6:27 pm § in Misc.
Hero drowns saving kids
“A Missouri man died in Lake Michigan on Sunday after helping rescue two children in distress,” USA Today reported on Tuesday, August 24, 2021. Thomas J. Walker, 40, failed to emerge from the water after helping save the boys, who were seen struggling near rocks. He was their uncle. He a[...]
Why Jews vote Democratic
Because this is a Republican. (Details here and here.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 24th, 2021 - 2:02 pm § in Politics
Republicans continue to peddle election mistrust
“The top Republican in the Pennsylvania state Senate said Monday he would kick off hearings into the results of the 2020 presidential election, the latest Republican-led investigation into an election that President Biden won handily,” The Hill reported on Tuesday, August 24, 2021. Read [...]
August 24th, 2021 - 12:46 pm § in Health
AMA calls for vaccine mandates
The American Medical Association (AMA) is calling on the “public and private sectors” to require people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, arguing making vaccination mandatory is “key to getting control of the pandemic,” The Hill reported on Tuesday, August 24, 2021 (read st[...]
August 24th, 2021 - 12:11 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Proud Boys leader goes to jail
A judge rejected the prosecutor’s recommendation of 3 months and gave Enrique Tarrio, leader of the violent rightwing Proud Boys group, 5 months in jail on Monday, August 23, 2021. Read story here. Tarrio pleaded guilty to property destruction (viz., burning a Black Lives Matter banner stolen [...]
August 23rd, 2021 - 7:15 pm § in Misc.
Will 5G end scam calling?
This article (here) is from the BBC, about U.K.’s telephone system, but the technology is the same. It explains why scam and robo calls are so hard to block — basically, an antiquated telephone ID protocol dating from 1975 that didn’t anticipate the problem and wasn’t designe[...]
Tucker Carlson falsely blames refugees for housing shortage
Ranting about America’s housing crisis, which is real enough, Fox host Tucker Carlson told his gullible audience, “So, why is it happening? Well, lots of reasons, but one reason it’s happening is America is becoming a lot more crowded than it ever was, and one of the reasons for th[...]
August 23rd, 2021 - 4:53 pm § in Misc.
Tallest American dies
Igor Vovkovinskiy, 38, a Ukrainian immigrant who’s lived in the U.S. since age 7, died this week. At 7 feet, 8⅓ inches, he was the tallest person in America. He weighed 380 lbs. and wore size 26 10E shoes, which had to be custom-made for him. Vovkovinskiy, who styled himself the “worl[...]