That’s a tough one to answer. But certainly Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) wants to be in the running. Tuberville knows college football. He coached at Mississippi (1995-1998), Auburn (1999-2008), Texas Tech (2010-2012), and U. of Cincinnatti (2013-2016), although with a mixed win-loss record (s[...]
Archive for October, 2022
October 14th, 2022 - 10:40 am § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Boston wharf in the 1800s
Wood ships can be only so big, which drastically limits their cargo capacity, and handling sails requires manual labor. Like steam locomotives, sailing vessels were expensive, high maintenance, and inefficient compared to modern transportation modes. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
October 13th, 2022 - 2:43 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Mikado
The 2-8-2 “Mikado” was the workhorse of American railroads in the first half of the 20th century; about 9,500 were built (plus another 4,500 for export), more than any other U.S. type, and the class comprised about a fifth of total U.S. railroad steam power. Return to The-Ave.US Home Pag[...]
Real estate listing
Nice neighborhood — The Hamptons — if you can stand the billionaire neighbors. Big house, actually two big houses, with a private beach on the Atlantic Ocean (not as good as it sounds; too cold to swim; sharks). Hurricanes? Possible. Last big one was 83 years ago (details here). But, you[...]
Why do Republicans hate electric cars?
“The Biden administration has made support for EVs a top priority,” Huffington Post says (here), and that’s probably enough reason right there. In today’s tribal politics, at least on the Republican side, “if they’re for it, we’re ag’in it.” But [...]
October 11th, 2022 - 10:15 am § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Mitre Peak
At 19,710 feet, it’s puny by Karakoram standards (nearby K2 is 8,500 feet higher), but it’s higher than Mt. Logan, North America’s second highest mountain, and it’s famous because of its distinctive shape. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Why did Covid-19 kill more Republicans than Democrats?
Multiple academic studies have indicated that Republican were statistically more likely to die of Covid-19 than Democrats. The latest, a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, concludes, “Average excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 76% higher among Republicans than [...]
October 10th, 2022 - 10:23 am § in Economics
Bernanke wins Nobel Prize
Ben Bernanke, a Great Depression scholar who guided the Federal Reserve through the 2007-2008 financial crisis, won the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics “for research on banks and financial crises” (see story here). He’ll share the prize with two other American economists less fa[...]
October 10th, 2022 - 10:20 am § in Law and Courts
Pig pen fight
I’ll bet you want to spend your Monday reading about the “dormant Commerce Clause.” Your wish is my command. Let’s start with history. Before the Constitution, “economic Balkanization … plagued relations among the Colonies and later among the States under the Arti[...]
October 10th, 2022 - 9:02 am § in Politics
Who do you believe, Michael Moore, or the polls?
Democrats couldn’t believe it when Michael Moore (photo, left) predicted (here) that Trump would win the 2016 election. Even after Trump won, Democrats still couldn’t believe their eyes, and struggled with believing what Moore had told them (“millions are going to vote for Trump n[...]