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Archive for May 29th, 2022
May 29th, 2022 - 10:33 pm § in Politics
This ex-felon wants your vote for Pierce County Council
Josh Harris, 47, who owns a Tacoma construction business, wants you to elect him to the Pierce County Council this November. Harris (photo below), a Republican, is running on a pro-police platform. He claims police reformers are fixated on “racial problems that don’t exist.” HeR[...]
May 29th, 2022 - 9:22 pm § in Humor
Ratatouille visits dog park (video)
NEED A LAUGH? Video goes viral in NYC; watch another version here Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 29th, 2022 - 8:58 pm § in Misc.
World’s scariest airline loses a plane
Tara Air of Nepal lost a Twin Otter with 22 people aboard on Saturday, May 29, 2022, while making a routine flight from Pokhara to Jomsom that takes about 25 minutes. There’s not much that can go wrong except weather, navigation, pilot error, mechanical failure, vicious downdrafts and windshea[...]
May 29th, 2022 - 5:54 pm § in Misc.
How to not be so damn pessimistic about the human condition
As a general rule the smarter people are, and the more they think, the more pessimistic they become, culminating in Robert Oppenheimer’s “I am death, destroyer of worlds.” (As the inventor of the A-bomb, he could lay claim to such a title.) Now the world is brimming over with turbo[...]
May 29th, 2022 - 4:51 pm § in Misc.
Squirrelball and ratball (videos)
You’ve heard of “Moneyball”? Well, this is “Squirrelball.” A squirrel gave minor league baseball fans in Columbus, Ohio, some extra entertainment on Saturday, May 28, 2022. I’m thinking NFL contract, how about you? Read story here. Such incidents at baseball games[...]