“At one time, science said man came from apes, did it not?” No. Science never said “man came from apes.” But that’s what GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker told a congregation on Sunday, March 13, 2022 (story here), adding for good measure, “If that is true” (it i[...]
Archive for March, 2022
March 15th, 2022 - 4:48 am § in Russia
Why Ukraine is winning (video)
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March 15th, 2022 - 4:30 am § in Russia
Are tiny cheap weapons making traditional armies obsolete?
A Russian main battle tank costs about $5 million. A Javelin anti-tank missile costing $175,000 can destroy it. Russia has committed about 2,000 of its roughly 12,000 tanks to its Ukraine invasion. Those tanks cost Russia ~$10 billion, not counting crew training costs, and given a Javelin kill rate [...]
March 14th, 2022 - 9:28 pm § in Misc.
Death penalty abolished, sentence carried out
Dayva Cross killed his wife and two stepdaughters in 1999; two years later, a jury sentenced him to death (see story here). But Washington’s supreme court overturned the death penalty in 2018 (details here). Cross was executed anyway on Sunday, March 13, 2022, just not by the state (see story[...]
March 14th, 2022 - 9:12 pm § in Law and Courts
Why people avoid downtown Seattle
Kim Hayes, 62, worked at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center as a nurse. Now she’s a patient there. Hayes was assaulted in downtown Seattle on March 2, 2022, by a stranger described as a “homeless career criminal” who threw her down concrete stairs leading to an underground l[...]
March 14th, 2022 - 7:56 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ghost ship
The U.S. Kitty Hawk, a Vietnam-era carrier, is being towed from Bremerton, Washington, around South America to a scrapyard in Texas. (Read story here) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Trumper hate speech rampant in intel agencies
Trumpers fill U.S. intelligence agencies’ classified internal messaging system with “racist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, and misogynistic” hate speech, a former director of that system says. “Even more startling,” he said, “there were many employees at [...]
March 13th, 2022 - 10:39 pm § in Economics
Chart: Americans return to work
The chart below shows the number of people in the U.S. workforce. The abrupt drop in March 2020 is largely due to the pandemic closing businesses, and most of those workers left their jobs involuntarily. There’s a quick rise in summer 2020 as many businesses reopen and some of these workers re[...]
March 13th, 2022 - 6:17 pm § in Health
What’s next for Covid-19?
“Things seem to be looking up,” CNN says (here). “Vaccines still do a good job of keeping people alive and out of the hospital. There’s increasing access to tests and treatments.” Infections, hospitalizations, and deaths are down (but still significant), and the health [...]
March 13th, 2022 - 2:37 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Wanted: Sane Republicans
Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC; photo below, bio here) criticized Trump, calling him a “would-be tyrant,” which he obviously is, after Trump attacked him during a rally in South Carolina on Saturday, March, 12, 2022. Trump called Rice a “disaster” and “total fool” for voting to impeach him[...]