The News: Tuesday, June 20, 2023

CRANKY OLD FART
WITH THE NEWS #330
leftovers & links
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

• Judges still cite cases in which enslaved people are property 

• Workers sue secretive elite club Bohemian Grove for wage theft 

• Majority of Americans would like to return to time before cell phones, internet, according to new poll 

• The Washington Post is mad that debt ceiling deal didn't cut Social Security 

• Power companies spend millions to fight Maine's proposed non-profit utility 

• Disney, Microsoft, and the NBA have ads next to neo-Nazi propaganda on Twitter 

• In case you haven’t been keeping up with the latest in Reddit drama 

• Protest appears to have had a small but noticeable effect on Reddit traffic 

Well, nobody thought the place would topple.

• Reddit's CEO says third-party apps add 'no value.' How he completely lost the thread. 

• Waters in the tropical Atlantic Ocean are at their warmest levels on record, which could help fuel an exceptionally early seasonal hurricane… this week 

• Rampant groundwater pumping has changed the tilt of Earth's axis 

• Unprecedented rate of global warming – greenhouse gas emissions at "an all-time high" 

• Rotting seaweed, dead fish, no sand: Climate change threatens to ruin US beaches 

• Climate change is changing the way trees grow 

• Republican support for Trump has increased even as he faces dozens of felony charges 

• Trump demands Republican rivals pledge to pardon him … or else 

• Utah city violated the First Amendment in denying a drag show permit, judge rules 

• Well-funded Christian group behind US effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights 

• FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year

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

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My browser history
without the porn

• Days of desperation: the diary of a woman forced to flee Texas for an abortion 

• Something wicked this way comes, 2023 

• Classic Corner: Last Tango in Paris 

• Repairing Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons 

• Lemmy is CEO-proof. After Digg, Reddit and Twitter, that term should be a thing. 

• The way we wank: Trans and disability-friendly masturbation guide 

• This guy wrote Windows Task Manager 

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

• Batman — Danny Elfman 

• Batman — Neal Hefti 

• Batman — Nelson Riddle 

• Please Don't Fuck Up My World — Sparks 

• You Need an Analyst — Allan Sherman 

Eventually, everyone
leaves the building

• Dick "Turkey" Hall 

• Franz Leichter 

• William Spriggs 

• Eve Tetaz 

• Teresa Taylor 

• Jim Turner

6/20/2023   

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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