The facts are complicated. Andrea Churna (photo, left), 39, daughter of a retired Michigan state police commander, and ex-wife of a Microsoft lawyer, kept a gun in her Redmond, Washington, apartment because she thought she was being stalked. On the night of September 20, 2020, she called police beca[...]
Archive for April, 2022
GOP candidate wants Dr. Fauci shot
John R. Bennett, an Oklahoma pastor (photo, left; bio here), told a cheering crowd of Republicans that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be shot. Bennett previously has said Hillary Clinton should be shot, and has called Oklahoma state agencies “terrorists” simply for pointing out that budget cut[...]
More voting fraud!
Todd Krysiak, 39, a registered Republican, voted in 2016 in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. That’s a crime. After years of investigation and prosecution, Krysiak was finally brought to justice. “He was given a 90-day suspended sentence and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine, plus a $960 penal[...]
April 26th, 2022 - 10:52 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
How to deal with a hater
First, if he’s breaking the law, call the cops. Then he should be prosecuted. That’s what befell the idiot in the photo at right, shown here in court with his attorney. His name is Alexander Jerich, and he defaced an LGBQT crosswalk in Delray Beach, Florida, by skidding his pickup truck [...]
April 26th, 2022 - 10:19 pm § in News Media, Politics
Why are Republicans more gullible?
I don’t think it’s debatable that they are, when you’re talking about the base. On almost any subject, they seem divorced from reality (climate science, election fraud, QAnon conspiracy theories, etc.). Thom Hartmann (profile here), a liberal talk show host, has theories; read them[...]
April 26th, 2022 - 7:52 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Why are kids giving up on college?
We’re asking too much of them. It costs too much, so they end up deep in debt. Remote learning sucks, causing them to question the quality of the education they’re getting. Colleges lack enough dorms and off-campus housing is horribly expensive or unavailable, forcing some students to co[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Amazon’s HQ2 in Virginia
The plans, unveiled a year ago, were approved by the county board of Arlington, Virginia, on Saturday, April 23, 2022. Read story here. The 350-ft. tall office tower (by comparison, Seattle’s Space Needle is 550 ft.) will feature an exterior “mountain hiking trail” open to the publ[...]
Why dogs aren’t CEOs (video)
Not that humans are much smarter … Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
April 25th, 2022 - 9:39 pm § in Misc.
World’s oldest person dies
Kane Tanaka, 32, is center foreground in this 1935 photo. Looking at this photo 87 years later, you wouldn’t expect any of these people to still be alive. But one was. Tanaka, lower right, died last week at age 119 years, 107 days. Only 1 person, Jeanne Calment, is known to have lived longer. [...]
What’s the U.S. strategy in Ukraine?
I’d say we don’t have one, for the simple reason we aren’t at war. It’s not a U.S. or NATO “proxy war,” either. We’re not at war with Russia, period. So supplying Ukraine with weapons isn’t what I’d call a military strategy. It’s military a[...]