A disaster “the size of multiple Katrinas” is brewing off Washington’s coast. “Katrina,” of course, is the Category 5 hurricane that leveled New Orleans in 2005, killing nearly 1,400 people. The lurking monster in the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, w[...]
Archive for May, 2023
May 9th, 2023 - 1:51 am § in Misc.
Movement (video)
I don’t know whether to call this acrobatics or dance, because I’m not conversant in such things, but a lot of hard work went into this, and I like it. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 9th, 2023 - 1:40 am § in Russia
Putin plays victim on Russia’s big day
On May 9th of every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. There’s a military parade, and patriotic speeches (details here). CNBC noted (here), “Moscow usually uses the high-profile event in Moscow to show off its military hardware, parading mass[...]
May 8th, 2023 - 6:35 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Your eyes aren’t lying, but tweeter is
Vernon Jones, a perennial GOP candidate in Georgia (profile here), tweeted this image of migrants supposedly besieging the U.S. border on May 8, 2023. Numerous other conservatives also used the photo (see partial list here, and story here). The photo was actually taken in southern Mexico on October[...]
Are they all children?
I struggled to pick a headline for this story, because there are so many good ones. For example, I considered, “If your boss told you to rob a 7-11, would you do it?” Here’s the story (read the rest of it here): “Lawyers representing David Shafer, the embattled chairman of th[...]
GOP senator calls student debt relief “a handout to the wealthy”
Attention struggling student borrowers, according to a GOP senator who wants to be president, you’re a rich deadbeat. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who plans to seek the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, called student loan relief a “handout to the wealthy.” (See story here.) When he was[...]
May 6th, 2023 - 7:55 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Gun violence on 5/6/23
Headlining today’s gun violence news, a mass shooter killed 8 shoppers and injured 7 others at a Texas mall before being killed by police (story here). But it doesn’t stop there: A 16-year-old boy was killed at a Texas graduation party (story here). A 17-year-old girl was killed and 5 ot[...]
May 6th, 2023 - 7:17 pm § in Misc.
Critics of GOP gun policies “don’t believe in God”
If you think “hearts and prayers” aren’t enough, and gun control laws are needed to stop gun violence, “you don’t believe in God.” That’s the message from a Texas GOP congressman in the wake of a Dallas-area mall shooting on Saturday, May 6, 2023, that left [...]
Ginni Thomas satire
From the New Yorker (here): NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Capping several quarters of robust profit growth, Ginni Thomas has announced that she will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Investors are expected to snap up shares in Thomas, who is believed to be the first spouse of a Supreme Co[...]
May 5th, 2023 - 11:26 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Kentucky man sets record for longest Jan. 6 sentence
Peter Schwartz (photo, left), 49, a welder from Owensburg, Kentucky, drew the longest prison sentence yet given to a Jan. 6 rioter. He deserves it. Schwartz has 38 prior convictions, 11 involving crimes of violence, some against police officers, which the judge factored that into his sentence. AOL N[...]