CRANKY OLD FART
WITH THE NEWS #327
leftovers & links
Monday, June 12, 2023 • US decides to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues, not because it’s the right thing to do, just to counter Chinese influence • Garth Brooks says his new Nashville bar will be safe for trans people, serve Bud Light• Safeway bamboozled nearly a million California shoppers with deceptive deals: lawsuit• Top EU court to consider if copyright is more important than privacy

• DeSantis supporters wave Nazi flags outside Walt Disney World • Republican official appears to have moved $1.3m from nonprofit to own law firm • Republicans reprimand Republican Senator for decency • “We take no pleasure in reporting that Cracker Barrel has fallen” might be the funniest sentence ever composed using the English language • Heavily-Armed Trump supporters say they’ll “protest” indictment • Summit for “female conservatives” was feast of transphobia and far-right crackpottery 

Mystery links
There’s no knowing where you’re going • Click • Click • Click •
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My browser history
without the porn• Life is so terrible and beautiful at the same time
• Anti-trans moral panics endanger all young people • Going no-phone • Dem bones, good prices • What would Aaron Swartz think of Reddit’s ridiculous new direction? • If you’re going to join a cult, why not one led by a pretty woman? 

♫♬  It don’t mean a thing  ♫
if it don’t have that swing• Beat the Clock — Sparks • Eight Miles High — The Byrds • Pick-A-Little Talk-A-Little — The Music Man
• Red Crayola — Born in Flames • Tower of Song — Leonard Cohen

Eventually, everyone
leaves the building• Silvio Berlusconi • Amitai Etzioni • Red Holt

3/12/2023   
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.