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November 14th, 2024 - 10:12 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc., News Media, Politics, Republicans

“The Onion” buys InfoWars

Rightwing provocateur Alex Jones owes a $1.4 billion judgment to Sandy Hook families which he can’t pay. But he can pay something; after all, he made millions by selling supplements on his podcast show. To help satisfy that judgment, his assets are being sold off in bankruptcy court. One of th[...]

September 25th, 2024 - 11:32 pm § in Politics, Republicans

Pets are safer with Haitians than Republicans

Contrary to J. D. Vance’s claims lies, no pets in Springfield, Ohio have killed been killed by Haitian immigrants. Can’t say the same for his fellow Republicans: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, by her own admission, blasted her pup to bits in a gravel pit with a shotgun. Project 2025 spo[...]

September 20th, 2024 - 8:50 pm § in Donald Trump, Humor, Politics

Eat the cat (rap video)

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July 31st, 2024 - 5:12 pm § in Donald Trump, Humor, Politics, Racism

You are what you eat

Trump is taking heat for this remark to black journalists: “I have known her a long time, indirectly, not directly very much. And she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I did not know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn B[...]

July 20th, 2024 - 2:40 am § in Donald Trump, Humor

PHOTOGRAPHY: Tampon Don

A wordplay on “Teflon Don.” Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

June 20th, 2024 - 2:26 am § in Environment

PHOTOGRAPHY: What climate change?

This is just weather and practicing for sea level rise. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

May 27th, 2024 - 4:13 pm § in America, Democrats, Humor, Politics, Republicans

How secession could work

GOP firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene says, “We need a national divorce,” and while her idea of splitting up red and blue states won’t work, it’s not worth another civil war to keep Republicans in the Union. The divorce part is easy; we’re already divorced. Republicans a[...]

May 26th, 2024 - 3:44 pm § in Donald Trump, Humor, Politics

If elected, Trump will clean up the mess in Washington D.C.

The city is a mess, he says. So big a mess it’s worthy of presidential time and effort, so he plans to wrest city administration from city officials and run the place himself (read story here). Here are his complaints: “I’m driving into a federal courthouse, and the graffiti all over the p[...]

May 23rd, 2024 - 6:14 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts

Why Trump won’t go to jail over the hush money

Even if Trump is convicted in the hush money case, and ex-FBI director James Comey thinks it’s a strong case (see story here), he’s unlikely to get prison time. Ex-Baltimore D.A. Marilyn Mosby, convicted of stealing her own money and lying about it, got a year of home detention (read sto[...]

May 18th, 2024 - 2:05 pm § in Humor

Why bother to be rich?

Being rich requires special effort, such as having wealthy parents, flipping houses, or winning the lottery. So why bother? Many people think money is about material comforts, but the trappings of wealth are a bother, just ask every super-wealthy person you know. (Do you want to spend your weekends [...]