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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 longtime contributor still posts articles which readers may find informative, interesting, or simply entertaining (read statement of purpose here). Use search term “hand bill.us” to find this page on the internet.

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Reporting on gifts to justices wins Pulitzer Prize

Judges taking perks under the table isn’t unheard of,

but usually they go to jail for that.

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August 28th, 2020 - 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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March 18th, 2020 - 1:00 pm § in Misc.

Selected Movie & Article Links

Below are links to a sampling of our best, 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. ANIMATED VIDEOS Oh Sheep! (6:36 min., genre: animated short —[...]

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May 7th, 2024 - 1:45 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics

Burden of proof

I haven’t been closely following Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, just reading headlines. It got pretty lurid today (Stormy: “it was lousy sex”), but I’m not interested in salacious details. I’m a lawyer, and my attention is directed at courtroom tactics. Pros[...]

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May 7th, 2024 - 1:46 am § in Politics, Republicans

Artificial intelligence (video)

Artificial intelligence threatens to disrupt the 2024 elections. Propagandists can now produce fake audio and videos so realistic we can’t tell them from real ones. They could manipulate us into voting for bad candidates by falsely portraying good ones. Take the video below; if you didn’[...]

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May 7th, 2024 - 12:22 am § in Politics

Civic disorder (video)

Dolton, Illinois, is a village of about 21,500 people (in 2020) on the outskirts of Chicago. The mayor is accused of “misspending and harassing political opponents” (quoting Wikipedia here). In April 2024, the FBI seized village records for a grand jury investigation. Dolton has attracte[...]

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May 6th, 2024 - 11:11 pm § in Donald Trump, Humor, Politics, Republicans

How’s this campaign slogan?

BLOCKHEAD FOR GOVERNOR VICE PRESIDENT Hey that wasn’t my idea. To skip the partisan stuff, I’m gonna pretend I’m a campaign consultant who’ll work for a candidate of any party. (“Gun for hire” doesn’t work well in this context, for reasons you’ll soon [...]

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May 6th, 2024 - 6:49 pm § in Biden, Politics, Republicans

Biden’s dog receives death threat

“Say hello to Cricket.” It reads like a bloodstained note from a serial killer. Cricket is in doggy heaven, blown to bits with a shotgun in a gravel pit. His killer’s message implies a similar fate for the recipient. After killing her own dog 20 years ago, Kristi Noem is going arou[...]

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May 5th, 2024 - 5:47 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump, Politics

Should Biden voters worry about his weak polls?

Some recent polls show Trump leading Biden. (I won’t cite specific polls, because they change daily and weekly.)  Should Biden supporters (and people who shudder at Trump) worry he might lose the election? Let’s start with words often attributed* to the immortal baseball philosopher, Yo[...]

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May 5th, 2024 - 2:53 pm § in Business, Economics

Is corporate greed the real cause of inflation?

Not all of it, but fattening bottom lines has played a role. It’s basic economics that when supply and demand are out of balance, prices will rise or fall until they’re in balance again. They teach that in college-level Economics 101 classes. The pandemic created supply bottlenecks and s[...]

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May 5th, 2024 - 1:39 pm § in Schools & Colleges

Should colleges turn students into cows and lemmings?

This could be the end result of Republican politicians trying to convert America’s public universities and colleges into conservative madrassas (see story here), but that’s an article for another day. Colleges are supposed to teach students how to think independently (see my article here[...]

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