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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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Man of God, or ungodly man?

“At the inaugural prayer service, the Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, made a direct appeal to President Donald Trump to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and undocumented migrant workers.

“Referencing Trump’s belief that he was saved by God from assassination, Budde said, ‘You have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.’

“When he returned to the White House, Trump was asked about the sermon. ‘Not too exciting, was it?’ the president said as he walked with staff toward the Oval Office. ‘I didn’t think it was a good service. They could do much better.’ Read story here.

When he took the oath of office, Trump refused to place his hand on the Bible. Read that story here. Inexplicably, millions of Americans somehow believe Trump was chosen by God to lead our country, and represents Christian values.


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 21st, 2025 - 10:01 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Religion, Republicans

GOP rep condemns compassion and tolerance

Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop in Washington D.C., led a prayer at the National Cathedral on January 20, 2025, as part of Trump’s inauguration ceremonies (video below). Her prayer included a call for compassion and tolerance for LGBQTs and immigrants. Trump didn’t like it and s[...]


January 20th, 2025 - 8:49 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics

Trump amends Constitution!

King Donald the First, and Republicans generally, don’t like birthright citizenship. So, with a sweep of his pen, the king did away with it just moments after his coronation (see story here). Except not really, because courts have final say on this. The 14th Amendment says, “All persons [...]


January 20th, 2025 - 2:29 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

Elon Musk’s odd salute

South African immigrant Elon Musk concluded a brief speech at Trump’s 2025 inauguration with a Strangelovian arm gesture reminiscent of a Nazi salute (video below). Less than a month earlier, Musk was in Germany endorsing the far-right AfD Party (story here), which critics compare to Nazis (st[...]


January 19th, 2025 - 7:38 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

A tale of two portraits

These are Trump’s official portraits.                                        2017                                                              […][...]


January 19th, 2025 - 7:26 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

Trump’s bombast

Trump always wins at golf, even when he doesn’t play (story here). He’s also a big talker, and his talk invariably is about himself. He’s always the biggest, best, and brightest, a “very stable genius.” At his Washington, D.C., rally on January 19, 2025, a consolation e[...]


January 19th, 2025 - 6:50 pm § in Donald Trump, Economics, Politics

Would you live next to a nuclear plant approved by Trump?

There are reasons for “red tape.” Safety. Pollution. The neighbors. Trump has always been a blowhard, making impossible promises and delivering less. That’s not going to change. During the 2024 campaign, he promised voters “he would cut their electric and gasoline prices in h[...]


January 19th, 2025 - 6:12 pm § in Business, Economics

Why tech firms flock to Phoenix

“Arizona’s largest city has, for a variety of reasons, become the epicenter for semiconductor manufacturing,” CNBC reported on Sunday, January 19, 2025 (read story here). Taiwan Semiconductor alone, maker of highly advanced chips, plans to invest $65 billion in its facilities in Phoeni[...]


January 19th, 2025 - 4:28 am § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Politics

Did Trump win or Democrats lose?

It’s not a rhetorical question. It goes to what Democrats must do to win elections: Mobilize people who didn’t vote, or change their approach to voters. A popular media theme is that Trump won because Democratic turnout collapsed. But a Vox article here argues he won the arguments on inflat[...]