While filling in for Tucker Carlson on Thursday, August 11, 2022, Fox host Brian Kilmeade displayed a doctored photo of federal magistrate Bruce Reinhart “having his feet massaged by convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell and holding Oreo cookies and alcohol” on Jeffrey Epstein’s[...]
Archive for August, 2022
August 12th, 2022 - 4:51 pm § in Environment
How squirrels keep cool
I learned a new word today: “Splooting.” Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 12th, 2022 - 4:46 pm § in Law and Courts
Detective pleads guilty to violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights
Ex-Louisville police detective Kelly Goodlett (photo, left) has agreed to plead guilty to falsifying the search warrant that led to Breonna Taylor’s death, and testify against three other police defendants in the federal civil rights prosecution of those responsible for the black woman’s[...]
August 12th, 2022 - 4:15 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Wisconsin GOP legislative leader ends partisan “audit” of 2020 election by election denier
“Wisconsin’s Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Friday fired the conservative former state supreme court justice he hired last year to investigate fraud in the 2020 election, ending a controversial probe that drew bipartisan criticism,” CNN reported on Friday, August 12, 2022 (read stor[...]
School expels 5-year-old orphan for being adopted by gay aunt
Zoey Parker, 5, is an orphan. First her mother died; then her father was killed in a work accident. But Zoey got lucky. Her aunt adopted her. The only trouble is, her aunt is a lesbian, and married another woman; but that’s a big trouble. It got Zoey kicked out of her school. “Her school[...]
August 12th, 2022 - 12:54 pm § in Politics
GOP recruiting poster
This is what it takes to be a Republican supporter these days. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
The rise of Dark Brandon
Nobody knows for sure where it came from, or who started it, and it’s even unclear who owns it. And it’s not as nuclear as “The Dark Knight Rises” (or the documents the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago). But it threatens to co-opt, and possibly even neuter, the rightwing “Bra[...]
August 11th, 2022 - 7:00 pm § in Donald Trump
A Trumper threw his life away over rage at the FBI
Ricky Walter Shiffer (photo, left), 42, died uselessly in an Ohio cornfield, shooting at police, following a highway chase after he attacked the Cincinnati FBI building on Thursday, August 11, 2022. Two days earlier Shiffer, enraged by the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, had gone on[...]
August 11th, 2022 - 1:33 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Lone Ranger Rock
This is where actor Clayton Moore reared his white horse, Silver, in the title sequence of The Lone Ranger TV series. It’s located on the former Iverson movie ranch in California’s Simi Hills, on property now owned by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and open to the public. Return [...]
The unintended consequences of hasty abortion bans
I grew up in a conservative community, and as a juvenile, my political thinking was conservative, too. Not just because everyone around me thought that way, but because conservatives’ black-and-white worldview seemed to make everything clear and simple: There’s right vs. wrong, good vs. [...]