News & Links: Friday, September 22, 2023

CRANKY OLD FART'S
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• This Spanish city eliminated street parking, and became slightly a paradise
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• The oldest fish in captivity
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• Visit what's left of Sex Flags New Orleans
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• The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it: Noctalgia
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🌎 THE NEWS YOU NEED 🌎

• New claims that WW2 Pope Pius XII knew about Nazi crimes
[Archived page]
    I thought that the Pope's complicity was already established and widely known. Feels like something I've been aware of for thirty years, at least.
    Maybe I just have a knack for the extremely obvious.

• This Ohio man used his wrongful conviction settlement to buy a house for other exonerees
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• Republican Congressperson says she "fell short of values" after Beetlejuice groping video
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    There are areas of the USA where what Boebert and her man are doing on video could land them both on the sex offenders' list for life. She has her hand on der wienerschnitzel, he has his on her boobies, in a crowded theater during a show.
    I've done the same, but in the balcony at a movie theater, with no-one else within a dozen rows. And I was in my late teens, and not a member of Congress.

• Republican candidate for Missouri governor vows to burn books after viral flamethrower video
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• Guy who inspired QAnon-backed anti-pedophile flick left group after sexual misconduct investigation
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• Someone I'd never heard of is getting the hell out of country music — she's tired of fighting the genre's racism and misogyny
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    [Excerpt:] "I didn't think of myself as a political artist. I just wrote songs about real life through a lens of deep respect for my country heroes. But the further you get into the country music business, that's when you start to see the cracks. And once you see it, you can't un-see it. So you start doing everything you can with the little power you have to make things better."

• Top right-wing propaganda outfit Project Veritas shuttered, citing financial ruin
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• Red states quit nation's oldest library group amid culture war over books
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• Archaeologists discover half-million-year-old wooden structure
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• More than 100 protesters arrested in New York City while calling on the Federal Reserve to end fossil fuel financing
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• Anti-election wingnuts are overseeing elections in 17 states
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• French ski resort closes permanently because there's not enough snow
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• Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts
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• Poison ivy is poised to be one of the big winners of a warming world
[Archived page] 

• All cops continue being bastards
    This is my other project, an ongoing collection of police brutality, beatings, and general corruption, almost always unpunished.

♫♬  MUSIC  ♫

• A Better Place to Be — Harry Chapin 

• Come Sail Away — Styx 

• Going Down — The Monkees 

• Jump into the Fire — Harry Nilsson 

• White Trash Beautiful — Everlast 

❔  MYSTERY LINKS  ❔

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👁  VIDEO  👁

• The private life of a cat (ca. 1945) 

• Not David Bowie and not Mick Jagger not singing "Dancing in the Street" 

• Mixie & Munchie 

• Obey your air raid warden. 

• Vaporizing chicken in acid 

⚰️  OBITUARIES  ⚰️ 

• Katherine Anderson
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• Larry Chance
[Archived page] 

• Len Chandler
[Archived page] 

• Eva Fahidi-Pusztai
[Archived page] 

• Curtis Fowlkes
[Archived page] 

• Byun Hee-bong
[Archived page] 

• Greg Lewis
[Archived page] 

• Joe Matt
[Archived page] 

• Richard Moriarty
[Archived page] 

• Nelia Sancho
[Archived page] 

• Stanley 'Whitey' Von Nieda
[Archived page] 

• Ian Wilmut
[Archived page] 

9/22/2023   

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, Kottke,org, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, MetaFilter, Miss Miriam's Mirror, RanPrieur.com, @soberscientistlife, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I've stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.

Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Wynn Bruce, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, 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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