Super Bowl ad depicts GOP “sheriff” shooting Biden, Pelosi, and Sen. Mark Kelly Legitimate political discourse? By the way, this ad is racist, too, unless you think “Crazyface Pelosi” just accidentally sounds like Crazy Horse. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home[...]
Archive for February, 2022
Canada’s approach to Covid-19 is different and better
“Canada’s provinces have generally employed strict Covid-19 measures such as school mask mandates and vaccine passports … [that] have enjoyed broad public support in doing so; even the strictest restrictions are less controversial in Canada than in the US,” Vox says (here). ̶[...]
“Trumpy Bear” rioter lied to judge about being sorry
Publicity-seeking L.A. beautician Gina Bisignano (photo, left; profile, homophobic slurs and all, here), who calls her personal savior “Trumpy Bear,” used a bullhorn during the Capitol rioter to exhort her fellow rioters to attack the police and “break windows.” Like many Jan[...]
February 10th, 2022 - 10:46 pm § in Law and Courts
Police killed 1,055 people in 2021
There’s no official tracking of police shootings in the U.S., but the Washington Post makes an effort to collect and compile data. In case you’re interested, here are their numbers, as reported by Daily Mail (here): Police fatally shot 1,055 people in 2021, up from 1,021 in 2020. Of the[...]
February 10th, 2022 - 10:26 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Shot at for FedEx-ing while black
Two Mississippi white men are facing relatively light criminal charges after chasing a young black FedEx deliveryman in a pickup, and then shooting at him, CNN reported on Thursday, February 10, 2022 (read story here; more details here). D’Monterrio Gibson (photo, right), 24, was in FedEx unif[...]
February 10th, 2022 - 5:55 pm § in Donald Trump
The White House toilets work again
With the White House under new management, the toilets work again. They didn’t for a while. “White House staffers regularly found printed paper clogging a toilet in the president’s residence, leading them to conclude that Trump had flushed pieces of paper down the toilet,” Th[...]
February 10th, 2022 - 10:47 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Mississippi GOP ramps up attacks on transgender people
Mississippi’s GOP-controlled legislature is about to pass a bill prohibiting “incarcerated transgender or nonbinary people from legally changing their name or gender marker while in state custody.” The bill “would prohibit incarcerated individuals from petitioning the court f[...]
How to have more by wanting less
“The average American works at a job he hates, to earn money he doesn’t need, to buy things he doesn’t want, to impress people he doesn’t like.” Or, as Harvard social scientist Arthur C. Brooks writes in The Atlantic (here), “Life is just a rat race, and we’re d[...]
February 9th, 2022 - 8:41 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Questions GOP senators ask black judicial nominees
As speculation rages over who Biden might pick to replace retiring Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer — he made a campaign pledge to nominate a black woman — let’s look at one of the leading contenders, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was appointed as a D.C. Circuit district judge by[...]
February 9th, 2022 - 8:19 pm § in Politics
“Wokeness” according to DeSantis
Ron DeSantis (R) likes being Florida governor, but would rather be president. He’s sort of a frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination, if Trump for some reason (whatever reason) doesn’t run. So let’s check out how DeSantis views the condition of our society: Pete Buttigieg: “If a[...]