Demetria Bannister, 28, an elementary teacher in Windsor, South Carolina, tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, August 28, and died Monday, August 31, 2020. Read story here. That story has a familiar ring; Dr. Steve Schwartz, the late founder of this blog, died just 4 days after becoming ill. The [...]
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August 23rd, 2020 - 7:00 pm § in Misc.
How bad will it get for colleges?
Dozens of universities and colleges were already under financial stress from declining enrollments and state support before Covid-19 shut down campuses. With classrooms and dorms shuttered, some may not survive. You’ve possibly heard of the Federal Reserve’s bank “stress tests̶[...]
August 22nd, 2020 - 4:14 pm § in Misc.
About that “1981” article
Dr. Steven Schwartz, M.D., the late founder of this blog and a brilliant internationally-renowned medical researcher with a strange sense of humor you’ve maybe gotta be an egghead academic (which I’m not) to comprehend, wrote and posted “1981 High School Football Team Photo Leaves [...]
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 13th, 2020 - 7:09 pm § in Politics
Dead man tweeting
Herman Cain, who died 2 weeks ago, freaked out Twitter uses by tweeting today (below). I thought, “What’s the big deal?” After all, Dr. Steve Schwartz, founder and proprietor of this blog, left us in March from the GOPlague, but he’s still posting. In fact, he posted here tod[...]
June 9th, 2020 - 1:06 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATION: The New Revelations Via Facebook
Over on FB, a friend of mine, a religious man and a reformed Mormon, seem to be giving us a new word of God. though Peter is very modest about making the claim of authorship by the divine. Stephen Schwartz If a fertilized egg has a soul and the egg is aborted, does the soul […][...]
April 30th, 2020 - 1:05 am § in America
FACEBOOK on the Louisiana Purchase
On Saturday, April 30, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed by Robert Livingston, James Monroe, and Barbé Marbois in Paris. President Jefferson announced the treaty to the American people on July 4. After the signing of the Louisiana Purchase agreement in 1803, Livingston made this famous[...]
FAREED ZAKARIA: An objective analysis of what just happened
Fareed: The Soleimani Strike Was Trump’s Michael Corleone Moment “‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.’ Michael Corleone’s lament in The Godfather Part III, about never being able to escape his family business of crime, could well be said about America’s entangl[...]
November 15th, 2019 - 11:13 am § in America
Warren gains with black voters
Last week, a group of more than 100 black female activists endorsed Warren for president, I am very impressed by the way the Warren campaign is strategically addressing different factions of the Democratic base. Now Axios reports that she is narrowing Joe Biden’s longtime lead with black [...]
How the UW Could Fix the Emmert Mess
The scandals surrounding former UW President Mark Emmert began before he came here and were deepened before he left for his real job as NCAA commissioner. The Washington Post calls NCAA President Mark Emmert “the lord of a feudal state that knows its time is over. “ My two cents: Colle[...]