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[...]
Archive for May, 2022
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[...]
May 28th, 2022 - 7:59 pm § in Schools & Colleges
The full story behind viral school bullying video
A Texas school is under fire for suspending an Indian student assaulted and choked by a white student in a viral video. (See, e.g., Yahoo News story here.) Shaan Pritmani, the Indian student, is portrayed as a bullying victim. The school blamed both students, but suspended him for 3 days while metin[...]
May 28th, 2022 - 4:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Georgia attacked by algorithms!
“Georgia’s Republican primary was stolen by the candidates who did not receive Trump’s endorsement,” Mike Lindell insists. Lindell, in Wyoming with Trump campaigning against Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), allowed as how “the election results were tampered with via the use of &[...]
May 28th, 2022 - 4:10 pm § in Donald Trump
What if Trump held a rally and nobody came?
This is the arena in Casper, Wyoming, on Saturday, May 28, 2022, where Trump campaigned against Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY). Read story here. I’ve seen bigger crowds at zoos. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 28th, 2022 - 12:49 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Texas school shooting response manual (nsfw)
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May 28th, 2022 - 11:43 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Indicting Trump for election fraud looking more likely
The best thing that could happen for American democracy is a convicting Trump of a felony to disqualify him from running again. Second best is disbarments and prison time for those who aided and abetted his efforts to steal the 2020 election to deter similar conduct in the future. That includes the [...]