CRANKY OLD FART
WITH THE NEWS #328
leftovers & links
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
• Utah district bans Bible in elementary and middle schools after complaint calls it "sex-ridden"
• Apollo's Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit, and why users revolted
• Reddit blackout crashes the site
• Oakland A’s fans held a raucous wake for their team
• California wildfires are five times bigger than they used to be
• Young Montana residents bring climate change case to court for first time ever
• Baton Rouge police rehire cop once fired for sexual harassment, lying
• Mississippi officer who shot 11-year-old is suspended without pay
• Reinstatement ordered for Oklahoma officers who fatally shot unarmed Black man
• Spokane's police chief isn't happy about a new law broadening the ombudsman's power to investigate
• Republican conference tells young women to give up their dreams & their birth control
• Republicans of yesteryear complain of encroaching communism in drunk driving laws
• Fox News calls Trump "president," labels Biden "wannabe dictator"
• House Republicans vote against life-saving abortions, pride flags at VA facilities
Mystery links
There's no knowing where you're going
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My browser history
without the porn
• A progressive Senator uncovered the truth behind the "Memorial Day Massacre"
• Richard Hunt: The gay man behind the Muppets
• 200+ things that Fox News has labeled "woke"
♫♬ It don't mean a thing ♫
if it don't have that swing
• Ballad of the Landlord — Langston Hughes
(read by Margaret Walker)
• Blister in the Sun — Violent Femmes
• I Started a Joke — The Bee Gees
• Pop Goes My Heart — Hugh Grant
• Teach Your Children — Crosby Stills & Nash
Eventually, everyone
leaves the building
6/14/2023
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.
Amazing to see that Scott Schinder made your obit list. Did you know Scott? I did. He was someone I'd call a friend. Used to run into him in Hoboken and NYC back in the '90s and we wrote for many of the same publications. Though he alone wrote for Tower Records' Pulse, which appears to be where many people remember him. He was a good man. -- Linden Arden
ReplyDeleteSorry, man, and I'm sorry you lost a friend.
DeleteNo, I didn't know him. He was a byline I saw a lot, and even though he wrote about music and music ain't my thing, he wrote well enough that I knew who he was, before clicking the link.
Well that speaks well of Scott then and his writing. You'd appreciate that he was sorta you in reverse. He knew everyone but no one knew much if anything about his private life. It's been fascinating hearing from others who knew him even better than I did and who didn't know he was sick or anything about his living situation in Austin. Yet, we all knew him as someone who loved to chat. To each their own, I say. It's all good with me. Whatever gets you through the night. -- Linden Arden (still stealing Highlights or would be if they still published)
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