Little noticed, amid the election brouhaha, is that something extraordinary is happening in baseball this season. The hapless (and helpless) Chicago White Sox are on track to become the most losing team in Major League Baseball history, bar none. The standings speak for themselves. As of July 31, 20[...]
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July 26th, 2024 - 6:19 pm § in Misc.
The $2 million song (video)
That’s how much the Olympics paid Celine Dion to perform this 3½-minute song in the rain from an Eiffel Tower platform. She sang it in French, which is her first language, having been born in French-speaking Quebec. Dion has performed this song before (e.g., here); you can compare her renditi[...]
Why cats love cat ladies
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July 22nd, 2024 - 8:06 pm § in Misc.
Will Vance repudiate GOPer’s “civil war to save America” remarks?
This issue landed in J. D. Vance’s lap when George Lang (photo, left), an Ohio businessman and GOP state senator from Vance’s hometown, declared that “if Republicans don’t win the 2024 election it could lead to a civil war to ‘save the country'” (read story here). It [...]
July 19th, 2024 - 5:40 pm § in Misc.
This might be a short marriage
He was a gymnast, she’s the daughter of circus performers, so it’s not surprising they like to climb tall buildings. That’s how they met. At first rivals and competitors, they became flirtatious, then romantic partners. Now there’s a movie about them (trailer below; read stor[...]
July 18th, 2024 - 1:45 am § in Misc.
Seattle cop fired for wisecracks about pedestrian’s death
Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, a graduate student from India, was killed in a crosswalk by a speeding Seattle police vehicle on January 23, 2023. See details of the incident here. One of the police officers dispatched to the accident scene, Daniel Auderer, mocked Kandula as a person whose life had “lim[...]
July 17th, 2024 - 6:53 pm § in Misc.
The Star Spangled Banner by a drunk singer (video)
Our national anthem is a challenge even for great singers. Country singer Ingrid Andress was drunk when she sang at the MLB Home Run Derby on Tuesday, July 17, 2024 (read story here). Yes, it’s cringy. If you have the stomach for it, watch and listen to the video below. Return to The-Ave.US Ho[...]
July 17th, 2024 - 6:13 pm § in Misc.
Who pushed who? Don’t believe the GOP congressman
I’d lay bets that Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), the man with the big mouth in the photo at left, pushed Code Pink protester Nour Jaghama, the little woman in the photo below, and not the other way around. The former Navy SEAL is a big guy. She’s a little woman. Moreover, Van Orden has [[...]
July 16th, 2024 - 1:37 am § in Donald Trump, Misc.
Who is Johnathan Willis?
“Johnathan Willis” is a fictional Secret Service agent in a widely circulated internet hoax designed to feed a false narrative that the Biden administration was behind the Trump assassination attempt. On July 14, 2024, a day after the Pennsylvania rally shooting that wounded Trump, a pos[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Screw the HOA
Everyone seems to hate HOAs. They’re the grist of YouTube videos, lawsuits like this and this, and battles over yard ornaments (like this one, photo at left). Now imagine you’re surrounded by HOAs, but not in one, and they try to make you toe their line. That’s what happened to a[...]