CRANKY OLD FART'S
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#355 [archive]
• Police raid Kansas newspaper and owners' homes, seizing computers, records and phones
Four Marion police officers and three sheriff's deputies descended Friday morning on the Record office, the home of its co-owners Eric and Joan Meyer, and the home of vice mayor Ruth Herbel, seizing personal cell phones and computers, including the newspaper's file server, along with other equipment unrelated to the scope of their search.
Officers refused to say when the items, necessary for publishing next week's issue of the Record, might be returned. The newspaper is obtaining replacement equipment to ensure publication...
Wow and a half — everywhere I've worked in the health biz, even before HIPAA, patient confidentiality was the prime directive. Not at Vanderbilt.
The article doesn't even mention a search warrant, only a request for records from Tennessee's horrific Attorney General. If there was a legal demand for the records, it should've been fought, but instead the records were turned over pronto, with no redactions of personal information, and the patients weren't notified until months later.
In a sane world, that would cost Vanderbilt a lot of millions of dollars, but I've looked at a map of the galaxy and you can't get to a sane world from here.
• Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection
• Conservative zealots targeted Kellogg's in the latest anti-diversity crusade
Republicans want black people to be maids and shoe shine boys, and nothing more.
• DeSantis's Florida approves climate-denial videos for public schools
We're
doomed on climate and the coming catastrophe, no matter what we do or
don't do, but that's not bad enough for Republicans; they want the
catastrophe underway even quicker.
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It doesn't matter how many improprieties and public hairs are listed and documented, does it? There are no consequences.• DeSantis appoints wingnut anti-LGBTQ lawyer to appeals bench
Of course he does. Who else would he appoint? Who else would any Republican appoint?
• Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'
"Multiple
pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon
on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — 'turn the other
cheek' — [and] to have someone come up after to say, 'Where did you get
those liberal talking points?'" Moore revealed. "And what was alarming
to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say,
'I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ,' the response would not be, 'I
apologize.' The response would be, 'Yes, but that doesn't work anymore.
That's weak.'"
• Man in Trump hat who threatened President Biden shot dead by FBI
• Building block of life found in outer space
• Reddit's menswear hub is the latest casualty of its battle with moderators
"Reddit may have won, but not without lasting damage to its communities…"
"At
the end of the day, all of these communities are held together by the
quality of the enthusiasts — people who do this stuff for the love of it
— and you can't replicate nerds who spend hours every day moderating
debates about pants."
• All cops continue being bastards
🖯 MY BROWSER HISTORY 🖯
• We've been greenwashed out of our senses. It's time to stand our ground.
by Greta Thunberg
• The problem is civil obedience
by Howard Zinn
"Somewhere hidden in a police vault in New York lie three short pornographic films. Few people have seen them. Even fewer ever will. They are a missing, strange fragment from an almost forgotten moment in time."
This is part one of a two-part report, available either as text or a podcast. Here's part 2.
• Seeing Robbie Robertson through the lens of his film scores
• How the car came to Los Angeles
• In Major League Baseball, plays that were once errors are now hits, as players wonder why
• Given a full season of plate appearances, could you get a hit in MLB?
♫♬ AUDIO ♫
• Black Horse — Pérez Prado y Su Orquesta
• Tryouts for the Human Race — Sparks
📸 IMAGES 📸
• Terraplaning on boards hooked to motorbikes
• The questions menu at Monorail Espresso, downtown Seattle
❔ MYSTERY LINKS ❔
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👁 VIDEO 👁
• Ralph Nader is a person in your neighborhood
• I used to think that adulthood was just one crisis after another...
• How to use the dial telephone
🕸 WEB WISDOM 🕸
• I don't care if there are undocumented immigrants in this country.
• Mark Twain and his close companion
• I don't really like the city parks.
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
8/12/2023
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 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.
Thanks for that Rialto Report link. I haven't listened yet, but I tentatively subscribed to the podcast.
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The odds that I would get a hit in MLB, at ant point in my life, would be zero.
Rialto is really good in their porny niche. What I love about the podcast is, complete transcripts right there, so I can read if I feel ready or listen if I feel listeny.
DeleteNot only was this newspaper reporting on a restaurant owners DUI, it was investigating sexual misconduct by the former police chief!!! This is truly heinous cop-on-a-power-trip shit. We really need to curtail the so called justice system in this country…
ReplyDeleteIs there a justice system? It's like the health care system, isn't it — not functional, but it's all we have.
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