Yesterday the FDA approved a drug treatment for hemophilia B that costs $3.5 million per patient (story here). That’s not necessarily a ripoff by the drug maker. Developing new drugs is expensive, especially gene therapies, which this is. And drugs for rare diseases, lacking a mass market, usu[...]
Archive for November, 2022
How prevalent is voting fraud in Washington?
Prosecutors have filed criminal charges in 42 voting cases since 2007, and 3 of those were dismissed, according to a Seattle TV station (read story here). Those cases involved a variety of behavior: Voting in two states, voting someone else’s ballot, a mail thief voting stolen ballots. Does th[...]
Trump lemmings (GIF)
Yeah, I know it’s annoying; and no, I don’t know how to turn it off; I don’t think you can, which maybe is the point it’s trying to make. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Is the Georgia Senate runoff election fair to Republicans?
God gave us brains to think with, so let’s see if we can figure out this brain-teaser. Political factions have been gaming elections since the first Neanderthal tribal chieftain election ~400,000 years ago, when voting was with clubs. Today’s USA elections aren’t necessarily a whol[...]
DeSantis-appointed school board fired by Parkland voters
Lori Alhadeff is a locomotive even Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can’t stop. After her 14-year-old daughter was killed in the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas school massacre, she became a safe-schools and gun-control activist, and was elected to the Broward County School Board in 2018. In August 2022, D[...]
GOP White House hopeful viciously attacks teachers
Mike Pompeo, who was Trump’s secretary of state, wants a big promotion. He wants to be president. A reporter asked him who the most dangerous person in the world is. I know what you’re thinking, and everyone else is thinking it, too. Having dealt with foreign policy, this presidential ho[...]
November 21st, 2022 - 7:26 pm § in Schools & Colleges
College education’s demographic bomb
It’s no secret Americans are having fewer babies, and the U.S. population would be shrinking without immigration, because its birth rate has fallen below the death rate. This has many implications, but few industries are more directly impacted than higher education. As Vox explains (here), [...]
November 21st, 2022 - 3:53 pm § in Misc.
Give him another medal
“Richard Fierro, a decorated Army veteran, was one of two people who tackled and subdued the gunman inside a gay nightclub Saturday night in Colorado Springs,” NBC News reported on Monday, November 21, 2022 (read story here). News reports have described Club Q as a “safe space̶[...]
Baseball rules
The rule I’ll discuss is this one: “If your pitcher hits our batter, our pitcher will hit your batter.” Trust me, that’s how it actually works in baseball (watch video below). Lacking votes to expel them, Democrats banned Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-[...]
DeSantis gives free pass to hotels aiding sex traffickers
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration “has declined to issue fines after over 14,000 violations of a sex trafficking law by Florida hotels and lodging establishments,” Raw Story reported on Sunday, November 20, 2022 (see story here). “An investigation published on Sunday [...]