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April 9th, 2023 - 1:06 am § in Misc.
When every vote counts
Sister Bay is a village of about 900 permanent residents on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin’s touristy Door County. It’s notable for its marina (photo below), demographics (few children, mostly old people), and its recent election for village board president, which made internat[...]
April 9th, 2023 - 12:51 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: The Easter Bunny
This is one of the last remaining postdated posts posted by Dr. Steve before his death. There are two more coming, one in 2027, and the other in 2029. I know what they are, but I’m not telling.[...]
April 7th, 2023 - 5:50 pm § in Misc.
Kari Lake asks relief from sanctions on grounds she’s crazy
Arizona courts ordered Kari Lake and her lawyers to pay legal costs in her baseless election lawsuits. They’re asking the Arizona supreme court to excuse them from those sanctions because Lake allegedly “honestly believes” she lost because of illegal votes and misconduct by electio[...]
Facts: A primer
Facts matter. I recently spent an evening going through my tax paperwork. I’ll pay a CPA to prepare my tax return. I want it to be right, because I don’t want the hassles that can result from doing it incorrectly. I don’t want to pay penalties and interest, or overlook a deduction [...]
April 2nd, 2023 - 2:32 pm § in Misc.
Native Americans didn’t get horses from western settlers
The conventional narrative is that Plains Indians acquired horses when European colonists pushed westward. But Native American oral traditions, and DNA analysis of old horse bones in museums and tribal custody, establishes that horses were present on the Great Plains by the late 1500s, the Plains ho[...]
The Oxford comma
There has long been a raging civil war among grammarians and stylebook writers over it, and it’s in Seattle’s local news today (Friday, March 31, 2023) because the county council just voted unanimously to approve its use in official documents, or its stylebook, or whatever (see tweet wit[...]
March 31st, 2023 - 10:09 am § in Misc.
You can’t hatch a rock
This bald eagle has parenting instincts to make you proud, and at least he’s keeping the rock warm. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 18th, 2023 - 9:43 pm § in Misc.
The Jesus defense
It’s well known that Trump has trouble getting lawyers to represent him (see, e.g., story here). Refusing to pay for their work doesn’t help, nor does entangling them in ethics violations that could cost them their licenses to practice law (see, e.g., Michael Cohen and Rudy Giuliani, bot[...]
March 17th, 2023 - 11:58 am § in Misc.
Is this America’s ugliest office building?
Of all the glass-and-concrete monstrosities springing up in a former warehouse district in Culver City, California, this may be the worst. Read a biting critique calling it “a gas-guzzling villain’s lair” and lo0k at even more grotesque images from other angles here. You know what [...]