This one, dug up from South Dakota in 2014, and now located in Paris, just sold to a private collector for $7.7 million. (Read story here.) A plastic replica presumably would cost less. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Archive for October, 2021
October 21st, 2021 - 1:24 pm § in America, Foreign Affairs
How to deal with Haiti’s kidnappers
“The leader of the Haitian gang who kidnapped 17 US and Canadian missionaries has threatened to kill the hostages if he doesn’t get what he’s demanding,” CNN reported on Thursday, October 21, 2021 (read story here). What he wants is $1 million per hostage. Five of those hosta[...]
Trumper arrested for threat against judge
A Kentucky Trump supporter angered by a Georgia judge’s dismissal of an election lawsuit left him a threatening voicemail. She’s now been arrested in Kentucky, charged with making a terroristic threat, and is awaiting extradition to Georgia. That means she’s cooling her heels in a [...]
October 20th, 2021 - 2:38 pm § in Christianity, Health, Law and Courts, Religion, Schools & Colleges
What to make of Rolovich’s strange choice of a lawyer
Former WSU head football coach Nick Rolovich, fired Monday for not complying with the state’s vaccination mandate, intends to sue the university and “all parties responsible for” his termination, his lawyer announced in a press release on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 (read story her[...]
October 19th, 2021 - 8:43 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Is this really about academic freedom?
I don’t know exactly how to write about this. I previously wrote here about the purpose of a college education (“learn how to think”), and here about whether a professor calling a trans student “Mister” in the classroom is an exercise of academic freedom (no, it’s[...]
October 19th, 2021 - 7:04 pm § in Misc.
Everest north ridge, 2016 (video)
This video depicts the route of the British attempts in the 1930s, from the Tibetan side via the Rongbuk Glacier and North Col, and offers a sense of the challenges those early climbers faced: Cold, wind, thin air, and unforgiving terrain. On this side of the mountain, the rock strata slope downward[...]
Weather: What to expect this winter
Read story here. Also expect high heating bills due to soaring natural gas prices (story here). Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Will Bannon be prosecuted for contempt of Congress?
The House committee investigating the Capitol riot rejected a request from Steve Bannon’s lawyer to delay a contempt vote for a week to “thoughtfully assess the impact” of sanctioning him for defying a House subpoena, The Hill reported on Tuesday, October 19, 2021. The request appe[...]
October 19th, 2021 - 2:13 am § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Matterhorn
Top photo: A gorgeous pastoral view from below. Bottom photo: On top, the summit is a heart-stopping knife-edge ridge with thousands of feet of vertical drop on either side. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Republicans: Endlessly dishonest, even about Colin Powell’s death
Colin Powell, storied general and political naïf, died Monday, October 18, 2021. Accolades poured in, but people also remember how he swallowed the George W. Bush administration’s lies about Iraqi WMDs that never existed, which permanently damaged his reputation. And now, in death, he’s[...]