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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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Ready, set, let the name calling begin!

Trump said he doesn’t care if he mispronounces Kamala Harris’s name.

An internet troll fired back with “Fatty McFelon.”

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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 23,000 posts, so this isn’t an index. ABOUT THIS BLOG Welcome to The-Ave.US, an introduction to this blog ([...]


July 26th, 2024 - 8:01 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans

Trump pal threatens Tina Peters prosecutors with piano wire hangings

Tina Peters is a former Colorado county clerk indicted for election crimes whose trial is to begin on July 31, 2024. (See details here.) Patrick Byrne (photo, left) was a long-time CEO of Overstock.com, an e-commerce company, until he resigned because of an affair with a Russian spy. Nowadays heR[...]


July 26th, 2024 - 7:07 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Will Vance hurt Trump?

It increasingly appears Trump chose his #2 too hastily. Vance’s youth and inexperience Vance’s toxic ties to rightwing venture capitalists Vance’s connection to extremist “Project 2025” Vance’s awkward “childless cat ladies” slur Vance’s idea to tax people for not having chil[...]


July 26th, 2024 - 6:19 pm § in Misc.

The $2 million song (video)

That’s how much the Olympics paid Celine Dion to perform this 3½-minute song in the rain from an Eiffel Tower platform. She sang it in French, which is her first language, having been born in French-speaking Quebec. Dion has performed this song before (e.g., here); you can compare her renditi[...]


July 26th, 2024 - 1:29 am § in Politics

Gerald Ford predicted how a woman president would happen (video)

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July 25th, 2024 - 9:57 pm § in Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Politics, Republicans

Three kinds of facts

There are three major categories of facts. Real facts represent reality. Legal facts are used to decide legal cases, and may bear a resemblance to real facts. Political facts serve partisan interests, and range from half-truths to fantasy. The FBI director’s testimony on July 25, 2024, that [...]


July 25th, 2024 - 1:39 pm § in Russia

Moscow’s deadly windows

Her country facing spiraling inflation as the Ukraine war rages on (see story here), a top Russian economist somehow fell out of her Moscow apartment window, Russian media reported Tuesday (story here). Moscow’s windows sure are dangerous. Numerous prominent Russian officials have taken the plung[...]


July 24th, 2024 - 5:43 pm § in Politics, Republicans, Schools & Colleges

Is Oklahoma the worst state?

It’s sure trying to be. Peruse the list below of my previous posts about Oklahoma. But first, the reason for this post is the state schools superintendent’s thinly-disguised efforts to impose mandatory Bible instruction on Oklahoma public schools. This isn’t especially shocking, gi[...]


July 24th, 2024 - 5:03 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans

GOP legislator demands speeding privileges

Justine Wadsack (photo, left) was pulled over by a Tucson cop for driving 71 mph in a 35 mph zone on March 15, 2024. She wasn’t immediately cited because she’s a state senator, and Arizona legislators enjoy immunity from arrest while in session, but they can be prosecuted after the legis[...]