CRANKY OLD FART'S
NEWS & LINKS
#356 [archive]
• US inflation means families are spending $709 more per month than two years ago
I
don't remember prices ever rising so steadily, for everything. It is
paranoid of me to envision conversations planning this, a conspiracy
amongst corporations?
• Vox's student loan 'expert' is paid by debt collectors
Huh. I'd thought of Vox as being a reasonably reliable site, but handing a page over to a shill and not even telling readers he's a shill... Jeez, even Fox News identifies the shills with a chyron.
• The Montgomery boat brawl and what it really means to "try that in a small town"
• Muslim imam in Seattle sues over mysterious FBI watchlist
• Drought causes 154-ship traffic jam at the Panama Canal
• An author says unauthorized AI-written books are being sold under her name on Amazon
• Illinois Gov signs legislation allowing lawsuits against firearm retailers or manufacturers
• Scientists just discovered a 'strawberry-like' antarctic invertebrate with 20 arms
"The evidence continues to mount by the day," Steube said without providing details about the evidence he was citing.
• Newest "anti-woke" tantrum: Right-wingers don't think kids of different races can be friends
• Republican assholes gotta be assholes, wherever they are, whatever they do
• Trump praises "terrific" white supremacist conspiracy theorist
• All cops continue being bastards
🖯 MY BROWSER HISTORY 🖯
• "Antifa saved their lives": report from clergy at Charlottesville
"The neo-Nazis just kept coming in groups over and over. We were far outnumbered, but I watched countless antifa youth risk their lives, one by one, to fight back."
• If Fox News had a DNA test, it would trace its origins to the Nixon administration
• The Satanic Panic never really ended
• The short list of climate actions that will work
• The Elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity
• The world's infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists
• Lahaina used to be a wetland
• That time Lord Byron tried to buy a 12-year-old girl
♫♬ AUDIO ♫
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown — Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
• Moonlight Serenade — Glenn Miller
• Wasted on the Way — Crosby Stills & Nash
📸 IMAGES 📸
• Teatime for Hitchcock and the MGM lion
❔ MYSTERY LINKS ❔
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👁 VIDEO 👁
• Flash Debate
It's a rerun, I think, but still perfect.
• That's a happy kid
Sam Kerr (#20), Aussie soccer star
• The Spider and the Butterfly
Some of this, I don't even know how they pulled it off in 1909.
• Streetwalking Lawyers of Aurora Avenue
🕸 WEB WISDOM 🕸
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
8/14/2023
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 the AVA, BoingBoing, Breakfast at Ralf's, Depsidase, Kottke,org, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, MetaFilter, Miss Miriam's Mirror, 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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