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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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Breaking: Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban

GOP trolls’ double standards:

 

🥁🥁🥁 MICHELLE WON’T ATTEND TRUMP’S INAUGURAL 🥁🥁🥁

Melania didn’t attend Biden’s inaugural

In other news …

THINK YOUR HOUSE IS YOURS?

A hospital might have

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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[...]


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 24,000 posts, so this isn’t an index. ABOUT THIS BLOG Welcome to The-Ave.US, an introduction to this blog ([...]


January 17th, 2025 - 2:09 am § in Donald Trump, Humor, Politics

Bartender’s advice to Trump voters (video)

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January 17th, 2025 - 12:15 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Republicans

A big colonial power is eyeing Greenland’s vast mineral wealth

Nobody cared about Greenland’s riches when they were buried under ice. But the ice is melting (see story here), and now a colonial power is eager to exploit the arctic island’s oil, copper, and rare earth deposits. It even has diamonds (see article here). The colonial power is Donald Tru[...]


January 16th, 2025 - 7:57 pm § in Economics, Politics

Taxes and spending, 2025 edition

Let’s tackle taxes first. Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager about to become Trump 2.0’s treasury secretary, warns of “economic calamity” if Congress doesn’t pass tax cuts for billionaires (see story here). If you believe this, you deserve to pay taxes so he doesn̵[...]


January 16th, 2025 - 7:12 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans, Schools & Colleges

How stupid are Trump voters?

In the final days before Trump retakes office, the news media are full of stories about federal spending cuts. Raw Story noted here, “A CNN analysis found that all 15 of the states that rely most heavily on federal support for public schools in 2022 backed Trump in November, while all but two[...]


January 16th, 2025 - 5:55 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans

This is Trump’s Attorney General? Are you kidding me?

At her confirmation hearing, Pam Bondi “refused to confirm that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, declined to oppose pardons for violent January 6 attackers, would not say if she would carry out an illegal order from Trump, and professed ignorance of a wide array of controversial statements by [...]


January 15th, 2025 - 8:02 pm § in Donald Trump, Economics

Trump’s tariffs will make beer cans cost more

If Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on Canada, the beer cans that spring breakers discard on beaches (photo below) will cost more. The U.S. gets about half its aluminum supply from recycling (details here). Two-thirds of the other half is imported, mostly from Canada (see story here). I haven’t [...]


January 14th, 2025 - 8:52 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

Trump’s bald-faced lie about Social Security and migrants

In his typical all-caps style, Trump posted: “Unlike the Democrats, who are KILLING SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE by allowing the INVASION OF THE MIGRANTS, I will NOT, under any circumstance, allow either of these two precious GEMS to be even touched under a Trump Administration.” The reality is [...]


January 14th, 2025 - 1:50 am § in Law and Courts, Politics, Racism

Black busker attacked by neoNazis awarded $2.75 million

Charles Murrell, a black classically-trained saxophonist, headed for a Boston library on July 2, 2022, to play his sax on the sidewalk. He never got there. Dozens of toughs from Patriot Front, a neo-Nazi hate group (details here), were outside the library. When they saw Murrell, they attacked him, s[...]