Election denialism and conspiracy theories have taken root in Arizona like nowhere else. Two years later, halfway through President Biden’s term, Arizona Republicans are still obsessed and driven by election results no serious person would question. Is the desert sun baking their brains? Anyon[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad States’
July 27th, 2022 - 12:13 pm § in Misc.
Guns are now a driving accessory in Texas
Police say the victim, who had a 2-year-old toddler in his car, may have cut off the other driver. Be that as it may, the other driver followed the victim, then when the vehicles stopped got out of his truck and assaulted the victim while his passenger shot into the back window. Her second shot [&he[...]
July 27th, 2022 - 11:53 am § in Politics
How to give a speech in 45 seconds
West Virginia’s legislature is considering a bill to prohibit abortions, with no exceptions for rape or incest. Of course it’ll pass; that legislature is over two-thirds Republican (78-22 in the lower house, 23-11 in the senate), and the GOP governor will sign it. Citizen input is a mer[...]
July 25th, 2022 - 3:21 pm § in Politics
Texas political ad goes viral
This ad has gone viral, with over 2.7 million views, but it probably doesn’t bother Gov. Abbott, who’s heavily favored in polls. The real problem isn’t Abbott, it’s Texas voters. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 24th, 2022 - 8:53 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
Another criminally irresponsible pitbull owner
If you let 7 snarling pitbulls run loose and they bite, gnaw, and chew an elderly man to death, how much prison time should you get? This happened in Texas, of course, a state populated by people with a laissez-faire attitude toward dogs and guns, but intolerant of black people who try to vote. Thei[...]
July 23rd, 2022 - 6:16 pm § in Politics
Does Wyoming have character?
Wyoming is a very red state; in 2020, Trump beat Biden 70%-27% there, and its legislature sports 57 Republicans to 12 Democrats. But the state is so sparsely populated it has only one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Like its governor and U.S. senators, its congressperson is a statewide el[...]
July 12th, 2022 - 8:46 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Arizona is no place to raise kids
Arizona spends less on K-12 education than almost any other state (see rankings here). That’s bad enough, but now their teachers aren’t required to graduate from college (see story here). This legislation was motivated by “a severe teacher shortage for the last six years, which, [...]
June 30th, 2022 - 5:25 pm § in Racism, Schools & Colleges
Slavery by any other name is still slavery
Texas is some kind of unique animal, a unicorn among states, in the sense of “only in Texas …” For example, only in Texas do a dozen or more cops mill around outside a school for 70 minutes while a crazed gunman is slaughtering children in the classroom. Only in Texas do people fre[...]
June 29th, 2022 - 11:17 am § in Politics
Florida bans rainbows
So obsessed is Gov. Ron DeSantis with banishing gay people to non-person status that rainbows are now illegal in and near Florida schools. Florida teachers also have to report gay students to the political police for being gay. “Teachers in Orange County, Florida are being told to scrape rainb[...]
How Texas plans to prevent more school shootings
“Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a ‘mental health challenge’ and the state needed to ‘do a better job with mental health,'” NBC News reported on Monday, June 20, 2022. Then added, “— yet in April he slashed $211 million from t[...]