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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 entertaining and funny (read statement of purpose here). Use the search term “handbill.us” to find this page on the internet. To scroll back to older posts, click on ←Previous Entries halfway down this page.

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Will Trump bow to Wall Street with his Treasury Secretary?

Kevin Warsh would be a conventional Treasury Secretary.

The MAGA crowd doesn’t like that.

Read story here.

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What to expect from the Trump economy

Higher inflation in 2025; recession in 2026

Read story here

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April 28th, 2024 - 3:40 pm § in Misc.

In memory of Dr. Steve Schwartz, who created this blog

Professor Stephen M. Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., the founder and proprietor of The-Ave.US, passed away from COVID-19 on March 17, 2020. Read local press coverage here and here. Steve joined the University of Washington Medical School’s faculty in 1967 and had taught there since 1974. He was world-f[...]

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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 ([...]

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November 20th, 2024 - 12:37 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Lindsey Graham covers himself in doggy doo

Even by politician standards, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a pathetic hack. Interpreting him is easy: He’ll criticize anything Democratic, and defend anything Republican. This time he’s defending an accused pedophile. He called any GOP senators who might vote against confirming Gaetz as[...]

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November 19th, 2024 - 3:48 pm § in America, Humor, Politics, Science

What Carl Sagan and Mark Twain said about beliefs

Carl Sagan, astronomer and scientist: “What is faith? It is belief in the absence of evidence. Now I don’t propose to tell anybody what to believe, but for me, believing when there’s no compelling evidence is a mistake. The idea is to withhold belief until there is compelling evidence.” Mark[...]

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November 19th, 2024 - 3:33 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans

When ya got nuthin, read their poetry to ’em

That’s how far Republicans went trying to block a Biden judicial appointment. Nowadays it’s a given that Republicans will oppose any Biden judicial appointee. It hasn’t always been that way; there used to be more Senate courtesy,  but we’re now living in the era of hyper-par[...]

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November 18th, 2024 - 6:56 pm § in Politics, Racism, Republicans

GOP senate candidate blames loss on vague “irregularities”

Eric Hovde is a silver spooner, the scion of a Wisconsin banking and real estate family. He wants to be a U.S. senator, but so far no dice. Hovde (photo below, profiled here) lost in 2012 to a popular GOP governor, and lost again in 2024 to Sen. Tammy Baldwin (bio here), the Democratic incumbent. [&[...]

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November 18th, 2024 - 5:23 pm § in Politics, Republicans

Kari Lake pays up for lying about election official

Arizona election denier Kari Lake falsely accused Stephen Richter, a fellow Republican and Maricopa County election official, of stealing the 2022 governor’s election from her. Richter, whose family was threatened, sued Lake for defamation. She didn’t dispute liability (see story here), [...]

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November 18th, 2024 - 1:37 pm § in Law and Courts

Why we need a felony murder law

Israel hanged Adolf Eichmann for his complicity in the murder of 6 million Jews even though he didn’t personally kill anyone. His role in the Holocaust was “collecting information on the Jews in each area, organizing the seizure of their property, and arranging for and scheduling trains&[...]

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November 18th, 2024 - 12:28 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts

Ex-soldier and war criminal sentenced for Jan. 6 rioting

The photo below isn’t of a military unit; these dudes aren’t soldiers at all, they’re Jan. 6 rioters. In fact, Edward Richmond Jr. of Geismar, Louisiana (in middle of photo), was court-martialed and dishonorably discharged for murdering a handcuffed Iraqi civilian prisoner. Richmon[...]

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November 17th, 2024 - 4:34 pm § in Donald Trump, Israel/Palestine, Law and Courts, Politics

Student protests: Enforcing laws or repression?

Nowadays when people discuss protests, the subject usually is pro-Palestinian protesters, so that’s what I’ll discuss in this posting. That’s because Black Lives Matter marches have receded into history, and there won’t be a Democratic version of January 6 though I’m su[...]

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