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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 wider 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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Both parties victimize elderly people

in their quest for donations.

TAKING SENIORS’ SAVINGS

Read CNN exposé 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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October 21st, 2024 - 11:34 pm § in China

U.S. revives Tinian airfields for conflict with China

During the closing stages of World War 2, American B-29s based on Tinian bombed Japan, culminating in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Read that history here.) Now the U.S. is reclaiming the abandoned runways from jungle overgrowth, to use as a backup in case U.S. planes must be dispe[...]

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October 21st, 2024 - 8:04 pm § in America, Biden, Christianity, Democrats, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Law and Courts, Politics, Racism, Republicans, Schools & Colleges

The tides of political change

Tides flow and ebb, and so does America’s political center. From 1980 to 2005, the progressive left “was mostly irrelevant to national politics,” a Vox article says (here). “The Cold War was over, and capitalism reigned ascendant.” The parties shifted — the GOP to[...]

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October 21st, 2024 - 6:15 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

The silly things Republicans say

Election years are called “the silly season” for a reason: Campaigns bring the lunacy out, especially on the right. But these statements by Republican politicians go way beyond normal election-year puffery and bombast: Example 1: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), on September 29, 2024, called Kama[...]

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October 21st, 2024 - 6:07 pm § in Environment

Climate change

Climate change is real and happening now, but government intervention is expensive and unnecessary. Humans can keep burning fossil fuels, raising livestock, and engaging in other greenhouse gas-emitting activities to their hearts’ content. Mother Nature will take care of everything, by adjusti[...]

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October 21st, 2024 - 3:29 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts

Is Trump’s latest slander of the Central Park Five actionable?

Trump once wanted these five black men dead, even though the courts adjudged them innocent of the crime he still blames on them. The five men (pictured below), known as the Central Park Five, spent years in prison for a crime they officially didn’t commit. They’ve been fully exonerated, [...]

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October 21st, 2024 - 2:35 pm § in Democrats, Humor, Politics, Republicans

PHOTOGRAPHY: Dueling billboards

Original version erected above a Texas gun shop: Version 2.0, erected with help from shop owner’s friends: Version 3.0, after Democrats responded: Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

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October 21st, 2024 - 2:20 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media, Politics, Republicans

Governors don’t get to decide which political advertising is “false”

It’s now clear it was Gov. Ron DeSantis who ordered Florida TV stations to stop airing ads for an abortion-rights initiative. The cease-and-desist letter to TV stations was signed by the state health department’s top lawyer, who has since resigned and now says he was coerced to sign the [...]

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October 21st, 2024 - 1:47 pm § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy, Politics, Republicans

PHOTOGRAPHY: Trump raised flag at Iwo Jima!

Trump has a vivid imagination (see story here), and so does the artist who painted the picture below. In real life, he’s a draft dodger who called World War 2 heroes “suckers and losers.” Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

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