Respect is reciprocal. To get respect, you must give respect. I respect you, you respect me. At least that’s how it always worked until the current breed of toxic Republicans came along. Republicans like Nassau County, New York, County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who ordered flags on county buil[...]
January 4th, 2025 - 5:24 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Why Republicans get no respect, Part 1
“A Colorado Republican has apologized after posting on social media that he was celebrating former President Jimmy Carter’s death by popping open a bottle of champagne,” Raw Story reported on Tuesday, December 31, 2024 (read story here). The obnoxious legislator in question is Matt[...]
January 4th, 2025 - 12:19 am § in Misc.
California surfer may have set new “biggest wave” record
A California surfer likely rode the biggest wave ever surfed (photo below) on December 23, 2024, during stormy weather at California’s Half Moon Bay, an area known for large breaking waves. Read story here and watch video here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
January 3rd, 2025 - 11:59 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Ex-sheriff who harassed black newspaper carrier faces another harassment accusation
Ed Troyer (photo, left), the elected sheriff of Pierce County, Washington whose January 27, 2021, belligerent encounter with a black newspaper carrier (details here) cost the county a $500,000 settlement (see story here), didn’t seek re-election (see story here). His last day in office was Dec[...]
January 3rd, 2025 - 5:08 pm § in News Media
How informed are Fox hosts?
Judge for yourself, from what happened when ex-Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) trolled Fox host Brian Kilmeade. Kilmeade, 60, is no media neophyte, although his journalistic ethics have been questioned due to his involving himself in partisan politics (see Wikipedia article here). Let’s get around that b[...]
January 3rd, 2025 - 3:39 am § in Environment
Why wolves are valuable (video)
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January 3rd, 2025 - 12:04 am § in Misc.
Thank you for the gift of your time
Mother Jones is one of my sources for posts on this blog. I like Mother Jones, both to read myself and use as a source, because it’s real journalism: Truthful, honest, factual, informative. Sadly, these qualities are in short supply in much of today’s media, so I treasure sources where t[...]
Are you ready for climate change?
Really, none of us are. “Hundreds of millions of Americans are about to have a collision with planetary reality,” a Mother Jones article says (read it here). That reality already includes “superstorms and rising seas; droughts and failed crops; deluges and floods; megafires and or[...]
January 2nd, 2025 - 11:08 pm § in America
American G.I.s committed a Malmedy massacre, too
Americans like to think we’re better than other countries in a barbarous world. The fact we elected someone like Trump to leader our country, not once but twice, argues that we’re not so special after all. So does slavery, Native American genocide, and the Japanese-American internments. [...]
January 1st, 2025 - 1:13 pm § in Misc.
Cybertruck explodes outside Las Vegas Trump hotel
Police say vehicle was carrying fireworks (see story here). Watch video below. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]