More prayer. Their one-page legislative program is reproduced below. This post is short because there’s nothing else to report from their side of the aisle. For a sampling of Republican lawmakers’ anguished tweets following the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre go here. Finally, to those wh[...]
Archive for May, 2022
May 25th, 2022 - 2:26 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump endorses “hang Mike Pence”
Trump reacted to “hang Mike Pence” chants during the Capitol riot “by saying maybe the mob was right,” the Guardian reported on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 (read story here), based on a New York Times report. (The latter is paywalled; the Guardian is not.) The Times reported that[...]
May 25th, 2022 - 1:02 pm § in Politics
What’s wrong with “stop the count”
The video below shows a scene in Detroit after the 2020 election. At the time, Trump was leading the initial tally in Michigan, so his supporters wanted election officials to stop counting votes. Their demonstration at the election office was disruptive and implicitly violent. They were asking for a[...]
May 24th, 2022 - 10:53 pm § in Misc.
Who’s the greatest rodeo bull?
Why, Bushwacker, of course. Riders, to win, must stay on him for 8 seconds, but almost nobody can. Didn’t know rodeo bulls are athletes? Watch the video below and you’ll see why. And yes, he’s famous among rodeo fans — the bull, I mean. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 24th, 2022 - 10:21 pm § in Politics
Republicans angry at Democrats’ response to Texas school massacre
Within the last 10 days, two 18-year-old madmen have killed 12 adults and 19 children with assault rifles. Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott, a Republican, urged “all Texans to come together.” But do something about guns? No. (Yahoo News story here.) Instead of being up in arms over the massacre, [...]
May 24th, 2022 - 7:18 pm § in Law and Courts
SCOTUS reactionaries are blind to dubious death sentences
The Supreme Court’s conservatives don’t want federal judges to consider death row inmates’ innocence claims. Still want to argue they’re pro-life? Read story here. Clarence Thomas finally got to do what he’s been itching for years to do: Write a majority opinion saying [...]
May 24th, 2022 - 3:24 pm § in Misc.
Plagiarism, the internet, and this blog
Vox has an article on internet plagiarism here, dated May 24, 2022. It got me to thinking. Some of it isn’t relevant to what I want to talk about, so I’ll cherry-pick its contents to some extent. (For example, this blog doesn’t post pictures of “hot girls’ butts”[...]
Election 2022: Sarah Palin vs. Santa Claus
Alaska has one seat in Congress (plus two senators), and Sarah Palin is running for it. She shouldn’t be elected, of course, after being elected governor and quitting halfway through her term. Then followed by her antics as John McCain’s running mate, and her family’s spectacular m[...]
May 23rd, 2022 - 10:41 pm § in Misc.
Rock climbing mistake (video)
Can you see what he did here? He put his anchor in an hourglass-shaped crack (you can see this at 2:26 in the video), instead of a bottoming crack, and when he put his weight on it, instead of jamming in the crack the downward force pulled it through the narrow section and it popped […][...]
May 23rd, 2022 - 9:46 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Sheriff slapped with anti-harassment order in black newspaper carrier case
A lawyer representing a black newspaper carrier victimized by Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer (photo, left) has filed an anti-harassment order against him, a Seattle TV station reported on Monday, May 23, 2022 (see story here). The order alleges Troyer “followed Sedrick Altheimer on several oc[...]