Alert! Incoming! Omicron spreading “explosively fast,” U.S. faces January surge Story here Current vaccines are less effective against Omicron (boosters help), and transmission is very hard to stop, but while masks and social distancing won’t fully stop its spread, they̵[...]
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Is “woke” bad?
Aaron Rodgers was afraid of a “woke mob,” TV personality Jake Tapper says (read story here), and that’s why he concealed not being vaccinated. What’s bad here, not being vaccinated and lying about it, or the criticism he might get for anti-vaxxing and believing things that m[...]
Should Covid-19 vaccines be mandatory?
Legally, the government can do this; some private employers already are, and it looks likely the military will, although these vaccinations aren’t truly mandatory because objecting individuals retain the option of leaving the employment or service. Forcing all citizens to get inoculated is dif[...]
October 23rd, 2020 - 12:15 pm § in Schools & Colleges
U. of Washington #8 in rankings
The University of Washington (photo below) is 8th in the world in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of nearly 1,500 universities and colleges, and “ranked 5th in geosciences; 6th in microbiology, immunology, infectious diseases and clinical medicine; 7th in social sciences and[...]
August 22nd, 2020 - 4:12 pm § in Misc.
1981 High School Football Team Photo Leaves Little Doubt that Michelle Obama Was Born Michael Robinson
UPDATE: Read more about Mrs. Obama here. WARNING: Before reading this, click here to read more about satire on THE-Ave.US Is Michelle Obama Transgender? [Editor’s Note: August 15, 2014: A google search revealed that Michelle was first outed (as a man) in a story posted on June 30, 2011 by Matt[...]
August 5th, 2020 - 11:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
Nuclear Taboo in the era of Trump
The Nuclear Taboo is the title of a book by Nina Tannenwald, an academic who specializes in “global security issues, efforts to control weapons of mass destruction, and human rights and the laws of war,” according to her profile here. She works at Brown University. Other people like her [...]
July 27th, 2020 - 2:46 pm § in Politics
GOP Senator describes slavery as “necessary evil”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a potential future GOP presidential contender, is drawing fire for describing slavery as a “necessary evil,” although he did so in the context of how he believes the Founding Fathers viewed it. He used the words in floor remarks about a bill he introduced to withh[...]
April 20th, 2020 - 10:27 am § in Misc.
An Old Haggadah
(Haifa, Israel 2018) – The Scribes of the Cairo Geniza project unveiled a Haggada from the 10th-11th centuries that offers a rare glimpse into the Jewish customs of the Middle Ages. The unique Haggada provides the Seder instructions in Judeo-Arabic, the Arabic spoken by Jews, written with Hebr[...]
A Visit to a Cemetery: Why does the military assume that a dead American soldier must always have been a Christian?
Embattled Belief .. The Religious Experiences of American Military Nicholas Pellegrino This fascinating essay by Nicholas Pellegrino asks an important question. Why are America’s military cemeteries filled with crosses? Even if, in the days of yore, 90% of Americans filled in the blan[...]
March 28th, 2019 - 9:38 am § in America
U.S. Projected to Add 1.5 Billion Illegal Aliens to Population this Year
(Story adapted in a spirit of sarcasm from original text on Breitbart) The United States is projected to add about 1,500,000,000 illegal aliens to the American population by the end of the year, should current rates of Catch and Release, border crossings, and visa overstays pan out. This year, the[...]