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May 2nd, 2024 - 1:21 am § in Misc.

Welcome to Steve’s blog

Dr. Steve Schwartz, a University of Washington medical researcher, created this blog to discuss campus issues, and it soon expanded to a wide range of subjects. Although he’s no longer with us, a contributor still posts articles that readers may find informative, interesting, or simply entertaining and funny (read statement of purpose here). Use the search term “handbill.us” to find this page on the internet. To scroll back to older posts, click on ←Previous Entries halfway down this page.

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Nixon would get away with it today

THANKS TO THE SUPREME COURT

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And that’s a problem when impeachment doesn’t work because senators hew to party loyalty instead of guilt or innocence. With impeachment gone as a remedy for serious abuses of power, holding presidents accountable for committing crimes in office was the last guardrail, and the Supreme Court removed it. That leaves Americans wide open to tyranny.


April 28th, 2024 - 3:40 pm § in Misc.

In memory of Dr. Steve Schwartz, who created this blog

Professor Stephen M. Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., the founder and proprietor of The-Ave.US, passed away from COVID-19 on March 17, 2020. Read local press coverage here and here. Steve joined the University of Washington Medical School’s faculty in 1967 and had taught there since 1974. He was world-f[...]


April 28th, 2024 - 1:00 pm § in Misc.

Selected Movie & Article Links

Below are links to a sampling of our most interesting, infuriating, or just plain funny movies, articles, and essays. Selections for this list are entirely arbitrary. The-Ave.US has over 24,000 posts, so this isn’t an index. ABOUT THIS BLOG Welcome to The-Ave.US, an introduction to this blog ([...]


December 27th, 2024 - 10:26 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

The huge cost of deportations (video)

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December 27th, 2024 - 8:16 pm § in Politics, Republicans

Kari Lake says she won’t run again

After Kari Lake lost another election, I suggested she retire from politics (see my posting here). Apparently she’s taking my advice, because on December 21, 2024, she told a conservative crowd she doesn’t want to run for office again (see story here). Her reason for bowing out of electi[...]


December 27th, 2024 - 7:17 pm § in Law and Courts

Guards beat black inmate to death

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) ordered 13 guards and a prison nurse fired for the fatal beating of an inmate (read story here). Robert Brooks, 43, was serving a 12-year sentence for “stabbing his girlfriend multiple times” (see story here). He was being transferred to Marcy Correctional Facili[...]


December 27th, 2024 - 5:29 am § in Misc., Politics, Republicans

Musk has it in for Wikipedia

For an utterly shallow, ignorant, stupid reason. Read Newsweek article here and watch video below. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]


December 26th, 2024 - 11:11 pm § in Business, Misc., Politics

The unauthorized Elon biography (video)

In this podcast, the co-hosts explain why they think Elon Musk isn’t a genius but rather a weirdo from a family of weirdos. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]


December 26th, 2024 - 8:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts

Trump retaliates (sort of) against former death row inmates

Before leaving office, Biden deprived Trump of whatever grisly enjoyment he might have gotten from presiding over the executions of 37 of the 40 inmates on the Bureau of Prisons death row (see story here). There’s likely a public consensus that he’s welcome to the remaining three: Dzhokh[...]


December 26th, 2024 - 4:26 pm § in Law and Courts

How to keep police from rounding up immigrants

If you’re in the U.S. illegally, you don’t have a right to be here, and the government can deport you. But that’s a federal responsibility, and there’s a strong legal argument (known as the “preemption doctrine”) that states have no authority to enforce immigratio[...]


December 26th, 2024 - 3:53 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

Border czar floats “halfway homes” for birthright kids

Trump’s future “border czar,” Tom Homan, says “halfway homes” for U.S.-born children “may be a necessary part of Trump’s plans for mass deportation” of illegals, The Hill reported on Thursday, December 26, 2024 (read story here). “As far as U.S. children — childre[...]