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Archive for January, 2025

January 3rd, 2025 - 5:08 pm § in News Media

How informed are Fox hosts?

Judge for yourself, from what happened when ex-Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) trolled Fox host Brian Kilmeade. Kilmeade, 60, is no media neophyte, although his journalistic ethics have been questioned due to his involving himself in partisan politics (see Wikipedia article here). Let’s get around that b[...]

January 3rd, 2025 - 3:39 am § in Environment

Why wolves are valuable (video)

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January 3rd, 2025 - 12:04 am § in Misc.

Thank you for the gift of your time

Mother Jones is one of my sources for posts on this blog. I like Mother Jones, both to read myself and use as a source, because it’s real journalism: Truthful, honest, factual, informative. Sadly, these qualities are in short supply in much of today’s media, so I treasure sources where t[...]

January 2nd, 2025 - 11:38 pm § in America, Donald Trump, Environment

Are you ready for climate change?

Really, none of us are. “Hundreds of millions of Americans are about to have a collision with planetary reality,” a Mother Jones article says (read it here). That reality already includes “superstorms and rising seas; droughts and failed crops; deluges and floods; megafires and or[...]

January 2nd, 2025 - 11:08 pm § in America

American G.I.s committed a Malmedy massacre, too

Americans like to think we’re better than other countries in a barbarous world. The fact we elected someone like Trump to leader our country, not once but twice, argues that we’re not so special after all. So does slavery, Native American genocide, and the Japanese-American internments. [...]

January 1st, 2025 - 1:13 pm § in Misc.

Cybertruck explodes outside Las Vegas Trump hotel

Police say vehicle was carrying fireworks (see story here). Watch video below. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

January 1st, 2025 - 1:51 am § in Politics, Republicans

Why Republicans get no respect

“A Colorado Republican has apologized after posting on social media that he was celebrating former President Jimmy Carter’s death by popping open a bottle of champagne,” Raw Story reported on Tuesday, December 31, 2024 (read story here). The obnoxious legislator in question is Matt[...]