In which ordinary citizens go on TV and look like complete idiots. (Read story here and watch video below.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Archive for June, 2021
Surprise! Painting is a Rembrandt
A painting fell off a wall in a Rome house. The owners sent it to an art restorer, who began removing layers of varnish. There are many copies of Rembrandt’s “The Adoration of the Magi” (1632-1633), but no one knew where the original was, or if it still existed. But as the restorer[...]
June 28th, 2021 - 10:47 pm § in Environment
Death Valley days in Seattle
The temperature hit 108 degrees in Seattle, an all-time record, on Monday, June 28, 2021. On this same day, it was 120 degrees at Furnace Creek, Death Valley, far short of the 135-degree record set there in 1913. (Guess that disproves global warming, huh.) Anyway, the worst is over, and it will cool[...]
June 28th, 2021 - 10:27 pm § in Environment, Misc.
Seattle experiencing power outages during heat wave
About 13,000 PSE customers in Bellevue have been without power since Saturday, according to KOMO News (story here), and roughly 11,000 Seattle City Light customers are without power as of Monday evening, according to SCL’s system map (here). In addition, WSDOT reported some I-5 lane closures b[...]
Trump wanted the military to attack protesters
The murder of George Floyd, a black man, by Derek Chauvin, a white policeman with a history of excessive force complaints, prompted the largest civil-rights demonstrations in U.S. history. Those protests were overwhelmingly peaceful. But America’s president at the time was a white supremacist,[...]
Australian scientist who worked at Wuhan debunks conspiracy theory
An Australian scientist who worked at the Wuhan lab in 2019 saw nothing to suggest that’s where Covid-19 came from. Dr. Danielle Anderson (photo, left), a leading expert on bat-borne viruses, says the Wuhan lab is like other such facilities she’s worked in, with even better safety protoc[...]
June 27th, 2021 - 12:54 pm § in Law and Courts
What’s really wrong with police unions
“They condition their members to see themselves as soldiers at war with the public they are meant to serve, and above the laws they are meant to enforce.” That’s the subheading of an article by Adam Serwer, an award-winning black journalist (bio here), published in The Atlantic on [...]
June 27th, 2021 - 10:08 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Bill Barr tries to salvage his reputation
Bill Barr, whose official title was “Attorney General of the United States,” but who actually acted as Trump’s personal attorney and fixer, apparently doesn’t want to be remembered as a subversive who tried to overthrow our government. With an eye on what’s happening to[...]
Who is Avi Loeb, and why does he believe in aliens?
From Wikipedia: “Abraham “Avi” Loeb (Hebrew: אברהם (אבי) לייב; born February 26, 1962) is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He had been[...]
June 26th, 2021 - 8:20 pm § in Misc.
Heat grips Seattle and Portland, but Gary Larson is on top of it
As unprecedented heat grips the Pacific Northwest, the Far Side cartoonist reminds us this is just acclimatization. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]