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The joys of living in your car
Oh, you’re not a street person, not by any means. You have a job. You even work overtime. You got a raise — the biggest in years! The only reason you’ve set up housekeeping in your car is because you can’t afford apartment rent anymore. The math is simple: If inflation is 6%,[...]
Will any Russians be left to invade Ukraine?
“MOSCOW — Russia’s daily count of new coronavirus infections surged to more than 121,000 on Sunday, an eightfold increase compared with the beginning of the month as the highly contagious omicron variant spreads through the country,” ABC News reported on Sunday, January 30, 2[...]
Honest campaign ad (video)
Hey, this is just for fun, and is about Australia, which has nothing to do with us, unless our conservatives are just like theirs. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
December 26th, 2021 - 3:10 am § in Humor
2021 Pandemmy Awards (video)
The Covid-19 idiot’s version of the Academy Awards. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
What’s wrong with hunting witches?
The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection subpoenaed James P. “Phil” Waldron (photo, left), a retired Army colonel “who spread misinformation about election fraud and circulated a PowerPoint document detailing ways to undermine the 2020 presidential election outc[...]
Christmas Karens (video)
Jimmy Kimmel’s adaptation of Christmas carols to the times we live in. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
December 1st, 2021 - 2:48 am § in Foreign Affairs, Health
Greece begins fining older vaccine holdouts
If you’re Greek, over 60, and not vaccinated, you’ll have pay a $114 monthly fine to stay that way. Americans would never stand for that, but we’re not as civilized as they are. Greeks don’t let their kids take guns to school either. Greece has national health insurance (deta[...]
November 29th, 2021 - 12:18 am § in Schools & Colleges
Should everyone go to college?
Yes, I’d say, if they can do the work. Knowing more, and possessing better thinking skills, is always better. But I’m against dumbing down curricula or relaxing grading standards so everyone can pass. If they can’t or won’t study enough to pass exams, they shouldn’t get[...]
November 15th, 2021 - 10:47 pm § in Humor
Are Washington’s football programs black holes?
With Jimmy Lake now gone from U.W., following WSU’s dismissal of Nick Rolovich, both of Washington’s Division 1 public universities have sacked their 2nd-year football coaches. Reportedly, physics faculty and postdocs at both institutions are applying for National Science Foundation gran[...]