The News: Friday, June 9, 2023

 

CRANKY OLD FART
WITH THE NEWS #325

leftovers & links
Friday, June 9, 2023

News you need,
whether you know it or not

• New York prisons may have effectively banned journalism behind bars 

• Human Rights Campaign declares a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the United States 

• Saudi crown prince buys PGA Tour – and control of golf in North America 

Golf was already dead to me, but now it's deader.

• "Enough is enough" — Australian PM throws support behind movement to free Julian Assange 

• Reddit lied about negotiations, and I have it on tape, says creator of app now forced to shut down 

• Peacemaker gets a street named after him 

• Archaeologists discover Atlantis 

• Canadian wildfires lead to historic U.S. air quality event supercharged by climate change 

• Grim future for coral reefs around the world 

• Earth's land is drying as it warms, but it is not clear how dry is too dry 

• Cop fired for swindling $2-million from elderly dementia patient gets his job back 

• Police say former deputy sheriff masturbated in parking lot of ice cream shop 

• L.A. Sheriff's Deputies arrested a trans activist for robbery; video tells a completely different story

• Judge tosses hundreds of convictions tied to N.Y.P.D. officers accused of misconduct

• N.Y.P.D. anti-crime units still stopping people illegally, report shows 

• Former officer facing reckless homicide has been charged in Ohio before 

• Deputies suspended after ignoring inmate's fatal medical emergency 

• Stop politicizing the weather, says Republican Congressman whose state is under an air quality warning 

• Pence says we must "restore confidence in equal treatment under the law in this country" by not indicting Trump 

• Republicans demand records from investigators of Trump lies 

• Huckabee ditches Chick-fil-A, pledges allegiance to Popeye's 

• Jordan further weaponizes his subcommittee on the weaponization of the gov't to chill speech

• Tucker Carlson's Twitter show opens with an anti-Semitic fanfare 

Mystery links
There's no knowing where you're going

• Click • Click • Click •
• Click • Click •

My browser history
without the porn

• April Fool's on the radio 

• My life as a waitress 

• No straights at Pride Night 

• What did Johnny Appleseed really do? 

• When workers pushed to unionize, Ben & Jerry's chilled 

♫♬  It don't mean a thing  ♫
if it don't have that swing

• Bonanza — Lorne Greene 

• It Isn't Nice -—Malvina Reynolds 

• Let the Sunshine In — Hair 

• Ring of Fire — Johnny Cash 

• Trains — Al Stewart 

Eventually, everyone
leaves the building

• Marlene Clark 

• Pat Cooper 

• Ian Hacking 

• The Iron Sheik

• nostreboR taP 

• George Winston 

• Harald zur Hausen

 6/9/2023  

Cranky Old Fart is annoyed and complains and very occasionally offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that's made me smile or snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited.  

Tip 'o the hat to ye olde AVA, BoingBoing, Breakfast at Ralf's, CaptCreate's Log, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, One Finger Medical, Two Finger Magical, Miss Miriam's Mirror, Nebulously Burnished, RanPrieur.com, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I've stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration. 

Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Wynn Bruce, Joey Jo Jo, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn't always shitty.

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