Guess correctly and get an honorable mention on this blog. Guess precisely and you might collect a $20,000 reward from the FBI (details here). Richard Ayvazyan and Marietta Terabelian, a married couple, stole $20 million of pandemic relief funds. They were convicted in June and sentenced to prison i[...]
Archive for November, 2021
November 18th, 2021 - 8:20 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
The-Ave.US contest: Which country are they in?
November 18th, 2021 - 7:53 pm § in Politics
Fired Ferguson cop shows up in Kenosha with AR-15
Jesse Kline was a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, from 2015 until 2018, when he was fired for “allegedly following an ex-girlfriend to another man’s home and poking the man’s chest with the barrel of his gun” (see story here). Further details of that incident are recounted here[...]
November 18th, 2021 - 6:42 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Living bridges
“For centuries, indigenous groups in north-east India have crafted intricate bridges from living fig trees,” the BBC says. Read their report here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
GOP House leader condones political violence
Whether he intended to or not, he just did. “House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Thursday that he would reinstate Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia on committees — potentially even ‘better’ ones — if Republicans win back the House a[...]
GOP senator revives red-baiting
Republicans don’t like Biden’s nominee for comptroller of the currency, who’s a banking regulator. They wouldn’t like anyone Biden would nominate for any government position, but that job is closer than most to the beating heart of capitalism, and therefore more likely to tic[...]
November 18th, 2021 - 2:35 am § in Misc.
“QAnon Shaman” gets 41 months
Judge calls him “EPITOME OF THE RIOT,” but … – He has mental health issues – He’s remorseful and calls it a mistake – He has promised to never break the law again In sentencing Capitol rioters, judges should try to do two things. First and foremost, protect [...]
November 18th, 2021 - 2:04 am § in Law and Courts
Reagan shooter to be free in 2022
A little over 40 years ago, John W. Hinckley Jr. shot President Reagan, his press secretary, a secret service agent, and a police officer. All survived, but James Brady, the most seriously wounded, was permanently incapacitated. Hinckley, a schizophrenic who desired to be famous in order to impress [...]
November 17th, 2021 - 10:37 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Summit view
View from summit of Annapurna (26,545 ft.), world’s 10th highest mountain. Colliding tectonic plates thrust up this rugged landscape; moisture carried from the ocean by seasonal monsoons draped it with snow and ice. These climbers lucked into clear weather and a fabulous view, but two of them [...]
November 17th, 2021 - 10:09 pm § in Misc.
In Praise of Maurice Griffiths
It’s too bad Maurice Griffiths is dead, if you love wood boats. Griffiths (1902-1997; bio here) knew wood boats, better than almost anyone. For decades, he edited the U.K.’s leading yachting magazine, but we don’t care about that. We care about the sailboat designs he left behind, the books he[...]
November 17th, 2021 - 9:22 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Central Himalayas from space
Somebody found this NASA photo taken from the International Space Station (roughly 225 miles above earth) of the Annapurna-Dhaulagiri region, and identified the peaks and marked their elevations in meters. This area is in central Nepal, about halfway between the Karakoram’s cluster of high pea[...]