Let’s start here: Police cadets are taught they need evidence to build a case. Law students are taught to win cases with evidence. Science is evidence-based. Conservative beliefs are not based on evidence: Conservatives didn’t need evidence to believe Hillary Clinton ran a child traffick[...]
Archive for May, 2022
May 19th, 2022 - 5:55 pm § in Politics
Are fetuses incinerated to generate electricity for street lights?
Gifted school’s curriculum compares Obama to monkeys
A biology teacher at the Roeper School (profile here) in Michigan, an expensive private school for gifted students that prides itself on teaching “critical thinking skills,” distributed the class curriculum shown below. The school is being closed-mouth, and will only say, “We are a[...]
What a GOP governor will do to Pennsylvania elections
Doug Mastriano, who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Trump rally (but not the Capitol riot following the rally) and is a persistent election denier, won the GOP nomination for Pennsylvania governor on Tuesday. Here’s what a commenter on HorsesAss.org predicted he’ll do if elected in Nov[...]
May 19th, 2022 - 2:48 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Beer inflation
The beer cooler at the 2022 PGA Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Even the golfers are complaining about the prices. See story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 19th, 2022 - 12:12 am § in Misc.
What it was like growing up as a child of a Doolittle Raider (video)
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Lauren’s restaurant
“They poisoned the whole town,” a cook who formerly worked there says. It was an accident. Boebert’s business was catering a local rodeo, and “the county health department determined the cause to be food poisoning from pork sliders sold at an unlicensed mobile stand and likel[...]
May 18th, 2022 - 7:10 pm § in Politics
Colorado candidate wants to eliminate popular vote
Colorado’s governor is whoever wins the most votes. The same is true of Colorado’s other state offices. Greg Lopez, mayor of Parker, Colorado, doesn’t like that. He’s running for governor, and it means Denver (pop. 715,522) can outvote Parker (58,512). So Lopez, a Republican,[...]
Trump still thinks you win by declaring victory
Let’s try a simple quiz. You win an election by: [ ] Getting the most votes [ ] Declaring victory first [ ] Because you want to [ ] Stopping the count when you’re ahead [ ] Doing the election over if you lose Few, if any, Republicans will pick “1,” the correct answe[...]
May 18th, 2022 - 4:43 pm § in Politics
Elon Musk outs himself as a GOPer
The irony of his tweet won’t be lost on anyone who follows GOP voter suppression, gerrymandering, bigotry and racism, armed militias, extremist and violence. The GOP is the party of “kindness”? That’ll have a lot of people wondering if the world’s richest person has los[...]
May 18th, 2022 - 1:17 pm § in Biden, Business, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Russia
$10 gas coming to Washington state? Not so fast.
The Daily Mail, a U.K.-based tabloid with a rightwing slant that I sometimes use as a story source (because they publish suspects’ names and publish photos of the bodies when other media won’t) posted the following headline on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 (here): Gas stations in Washington re[...]