Teen male ice skating phenom Ilia Malinin (photo, left), 17, performed the sport’s last unconquered quad jump — the quadruple axel — at a Lake Placid competition (details here) on Thursday, September 15, 2022 (see story here and watch video below). Generally speaking, doing a skati[...]
Archive for September, 2022
September 15th, 2022 - 1:34 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Stupid defendants get more time
Josiah Kenyon, 35, of Winnemucca, Nevada, likely will be in his 40s when he gets out of prison, as he’s looking at 76 to 97 months for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection (see story here). Kenyon (mugshot below), who claims to have an IQ above zero (I’ll discuss this furth[...]
September 15th, 2022 - 11:43 am § in Politics
If it quacks like a duck …
Robert Keith Packer, shown here outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, pled guilty in January 2022 to a misdemeanor charge of “unlawful parading and picketing.” Prosecutors gave him a break on the charges, given that he invaded the building and other photos show him i[...]
Why discriminating against gays isn’t a religious right
Private colleges are in the limelight this week in the religious right’s war against gays. Earlier this week, the Seattle Times reported that Seattle Pacific University, a private Methodist-affiliated college, is suffering enrollment declines and shedding faculty and students because of its po[...]
September 14th, 2022 - 3:52 pm § in Business, Environment
Patagonia founder gives company to environmental causes
Back in the 1960s, Yvon Chouinard was a leading Yosemite rock climber, who soon would be doing world-class alpine climbs. The equipment for this kind of climbing largely didn’t exist, so he invented and made it, revolutionizing both techniques and gear. In those days, he made his “Lost A[...]
September 14th, 2022 - 1:17 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Voting fraud unearthed!
Republicans insist there’s voting fraud, and even though our elections are generally secure, it’s hard to argue with them — because they keep committing it. Today’s story comes from Rensselaer County, New York (see map here), which includes the city of Troy, and politically l[...]
September 14th, 2022 - 12:11 am § in Politics
Class act
Kenn Starr, the special prosecutor who tried and failed to bring down Bill Clinton, and later presided over “Rape University” (details here), died today. Monica Lewinsky could’ve said a lot of things about him, and other people did, but she chose instead to say this: Read story her[...]
September 13th, 2022 - 10:16 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Royal goat
Abolish the monarchy but keep the royal goat, an anti-royalist says. Meanwhile, the well-trained goat puts on proper hauter in the presence of Her Majesty’s Royal Highness. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
If you’re gonna be a hypocrite, you might as well get rich from it
Republicans are notorious for hypocrisy, but Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) takes it to a higher level. Higher income level, that is. Johnson (photo, left) was owner and CEO of Pacur, a Wisconsin plastics manufacturer that made him a wealthy man. As the Guardian notes (here), Johnson is “a vocal crit[...]
September 13th, 2022 - 12:54 am § in Misc.
Why the public is losing patience with homeless camps
In a suburb of Tacoma, Washington, homeless people took over a privately owned vacant lot across the street from a public park. They had no right to be there, and the owners didn’t want them there, but that’s the least of what was wrong with that encampment. Until it was cleared out by s[...]