A Yahoo News article (here) this morning begins, “From the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and throughout the conflict, Moscow has pursued a strategy of aggressive public dissembling, prevarication and disinformation aimed at creating an alternative reality to explain how events have [...]
Archive for April, 2022
April 15th, 2022 - 5:50 pm § in Politics
Loren Culp gets phished
One-time cop and perpetual candidate Loren Culp fell for “a common phishing scam.” “Culp claimed … that Facebook had notified him it was about to delete his campaign page” and lit into Big Tech, the Tacoma News Tribune reported here. “But Facebook says it sent no [...]
April 15th, 2022 - 12:43 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Why Sen. Lee and Rep. Roy realized Trump’s coup attempt was illegal
Trying to understand Republicans is like an oceanographer peering at the water’s surface and trying to figure out what’s beneath it. I’ll give it a try. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is a hard-right conservative who represents a deep-red state. He’s also a lawyer, and former assistant[...]
April 15th, 2022 - 12:00 pm § in Racism
Jackie Robinson tribute
75 years ago today, he broke MLB’s color barrier. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
April 15th, 2022 - 2:51 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Always blaming someone else
Mitch McConnell once described Donald Trump in these terms: “He’s always setting up somebody to blame it on.” CNN political reporter Chris Cillizza says, “Yes! That exactly! There’s dozens of these examples. And they all tell the same story: If and when anything goes ba[...]
April 15th, 2022 - 1:42 am § in Russia
Is nuclear war edging closer in Ukraine?
The threat of Russia using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine “cannot be taken lightly,” but so far the CIA hasn’t seen “a lot of practical evidence reinforcing that concern,” CIA Director William Burns said Thursday, April 14, 2022 (read Reuters story here). Burns spe[...]
April 15th, 2022 - 12:38 am § in Russia
Russia loses “Battleship” game
I don’t know if you’ve played the “Battleship” game. The idea is to locate the enemy’s ships and sink them by firing missiles at blank game board spaces. You can get the board game here or play it online here. Countries play real-life “Battleship,” too. Th[...]
April 14th, 2022 - 7:15 pm § in Politics
GOP legislator says homeless people should copy Hitler’s work ethic
The homeless problem frustrates everyone. They camp on sidewalks, litter, set fires, and get into fights. Here in Seattle, even the courthouse was unsafe (see my posting here). You can’t make them disappear; if you chase them out, they’ll go somewhere else. Efforts to get them into shelt[...]
Republicans impeach GOP attorney general who killed a man and reported hitting a deer
Might a GOP-controlled legislature actually hold a fellow Republican accountable for gross behavior? Jason Ravensborg is a piece of work. Ravnsborg, South Dakota’s attorney general, killed a man walking along a road with a flashlight on September 12, 2020. Ravnsborg already had a rap sheet of [...]
April 13th, 2022 - 9:59 pm § in Science
The biggest comet ever seen
A comet 85 miles in diameter that loops around the sun every 3 million years is the largest comet ever seen. It was spotted in 2014 in images taken in 2010 by a Chilean observatory, was believed to be large because of its brightness, and observations by the Hubble telescope have just confirmed its s[...]