Researchers have discovered dogs can learn much the same way as human toddlers do. This dog, owned by a psychologist, knows the names of over 1,000 objects. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Archive for December, 2022
December 11th, 2022 - 6:24 pm § in Science
Is your dog smart as a toddler, or is your toddler as smart as a dog?
Sunday, 12/11/22, political stories
Elon Musk said Dr. Anthony Fauci should be “prosecuted,” but didn’t identify a crime Fauci committed. Recent events have exposed Musk as a far-right extremist who, more than once, has made libelous comments about other people (read story here). Trump “wasn’t particularl[...]
December 10th, 2022 - 1:23 pm § in Law and Courts
Denial of service
In this exchange, TV host Michael Smerconish and Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation of Virginia, debated the right of businesses to deny service to customers in a discriminatory manner (read story here). Smerconish, who has a law degree, argues “everyone should be served” [...]
A tale of two prison sentences
Ronald Sandlin, 35, a Capitol rioter, traveled from Tennessee to Washington D.C. with two other men “in a rental car packed with two pistols, two magazines of ammunition, cans of bear mace, gas masks, body armor, several knives and other gear, according to prosecutors.” On Jan. 6, 2021, [...]
December 9th, 2022 - 11:56 pm § in Humor
Crabby in “Trouble in Paradise” (video)
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Arizona losers file election lawsuits
Arizona is a hotbed of GOP election denialism, and a slate of Trump-inspired election deniers won the 2022 GOP primaries there, then lost in November. Now they’re filing lawsuits to overturn those results (read story here). I scanned defeated governor candidate Kari Lake’s 70-page filing[...]
What does “woke” mean?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, is against everything “woke.” To imagine the policies he’d inflict on all 50 states as president, we need to figure out what he means by “woke.” Mother Jones says (here) that DeSantis, “chief warrior in the cru[...]
Why conservatives attack CRT
Critical race theory is an academic subject in graduate schools. Graduate-school subjects obviously aren’t taught in grade schools, but conservative culture warriors have hijacked the term to refer to teaching schoolchildren about slavery, racial discrimination, and mistreatment of black peopl[...]