A 12-year-old boy armed with a handgun robbed a Michigan gas station on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. The boy pulled the gun from a backpack, pointed it at the clerk, and said, “Put the money in the bag.” When the clerk asked if he was serious, the boy pulled the trigger and fired a round [&h[...]
Archive for June, 2022
June 4th, 2022 - 10:24 pm § in Law and Courts
Cops don’t have a legal duty to respond when you call
This isn’t new. It was being taught in law schools half a century ago, when I was a law student. Legal historian Mia Brett (profile here), writing for Raw Story (here), says, “The law doesn’t require cops to protect the public.” It’s long been the rule that police don’[...]
June 4th, 2022 - 9:23 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Peter Navarro’s “buy my book” defense
Peter Navarro (profile here), a former Trump adviser involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, was arrested Friday for contempt of Congress. Ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen, who ought to know, thinks he’ll go to prison. Navarro, who’s not a lawyer, plans to represent himself. On Sa[...]
How to pass a slowpoke on a 2-lane highway (video)
Blow your whistle. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Ted Cruz on gun safety
You may want to have a barf bag handy for this one. But then, that’s pretty much true of anything involving Ted Cruz, who stood smiling on a debate stage while Donald Trump accused his father of complicity in JFK’s assassination, and fled to Mexico when the Texas power grid failed and so[...]
June 3rd, 2022 - 10:39 pm § in Business, Law and Courts
They can’t trademark this
WalMart drew a torrent of criticism and mockery for trying to capitalize on the new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery with a line of products. See, e.g., the tweet below, and story with more mocking tweets here. They even tried to trademark “Juneteenth,” shown here on an i[...]
June 3rd, 2022 - 3:02 pm § in Misc.
Why smart Republicans cast stupid votes
Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-NY), a career politician but newcomer to Congress (see profile here), looks like a smart guy. Scion of a wealthy Buffalo family that made a fortune in food service, he has undergraduate, master’s, and law degrees. After the mass murder at a Buffalo grocery story by an 18-y[...]
June 3rd, 2022 - 2:21 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Ohio GOP passes bill requiring crotch inspections for girls’ sports
Ohio Republican legislators passed a bill late Wednesday night banning trans girls from high school and college athletics that “comes with a ‘verification process’ of checking the genitals of those ‘accused’ of being trans,” a Cleveland TV station reported on Frid[...]
June 3rd, 2022 - 3:56 am § in Health
Dogs detect Covid-19 better than tests!
However, you still may prefer testing. Read story here Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 2nd, 2022 - 11:57 pm § in Misc.
Genghis Khan and the D.C. trucker protest
“The trucker protest in the Washington, DC-area has finally come to an ignominious end after the manager of the Hagerstown Speedway, the group’s staging ground 90 miles outside of the nation’s capital, ousted the convoy,” Mother Jones reported on Thursday, June 2, 2022 (story here).�[...]