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June 14th, 2024 - 2:06 am § in News Media, Politics
News or propaganda?
It can be hard to tell. The news industry’s traditional business model has collapsed, and newsrooms are going away. Newspapers used to be supported by advertising, local TV news by commercials. But shopping and advertising moved to the internet, greatly reducing financial support for unbiased [...]
May 7th, 2024 - 8:00 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
Do UW professors have free speech?
Academic freedom. Freedom of inquiry. Free speech. That’s what Stuart Reges (photo, left), a University of Washington computer science professor, and the public interest law firm representing him, thought they were defending when he sued UW in federal court after administrators sought to punis[...]
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 entertainin[...]
May 1st, 2024 - 12:15 am § in Misc.
How this blog has evolved since its founder’s death
This blog is now over 14 years old, and it’s been 4 years since its creator, Dr. Steve Schwartz, was fatally stricken with Covid-19. Without his presence, some changes were inevitable, although the fact I’ve been a contributor since the blog’s inception helps provide continuity. Ma[...]
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 23,000 posts, so this isn’t an index. ABOUT THIS BLOG Welcome to The-Ave.US, an introduction to this blog ([...]
May 5th, 2023 - 11:26 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Kentucky man sets record for longest Jan. 6 sentence
Peter Schwartz (photo, left), 49, a welder from Owensburg, Kentucky, drew the longest prison sentence yet given to a Jan. 6 rioter. He deserves it. Schwartz has 38 prior convictions, 11 involving crimes of violence, some against police officers, which the judge factored that into his sentence. AOL N[...]
January 28th, 2023 - 12:18 am § in Jews
Broadway play puts faces on Holocaust victims
To many people, the Holocaust is a phrase: Six million Jews. Some people, perhaps, look at the anonymous faces in concentration camp photos. The play “Leopoldstadt” (details here) tries to turn the history of the murdered Jews into a memory of real human beings that audiences can take ho[...]