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• When is it OK for white people to ask about other people’s ethnicity?
   
Any time, any where, any time my mother is chatting with any person who
isn’t white, she’ll ask that person’s ethnicity. She’s done it at the
library, at church, with strangers on the sidewalk, and with the staff
at the diner where we have breakfast twice monthly (they’re all Asian).
    I’ve always thought the question is rude, especially because it’s the first and only personal
question she asks, and she never asks white people their ancestry.
Never much been able to put the annoyance into words, though, until
reading the article linked above.

• Why I’m proud to stand trial defending the right to rescue animals
by Cassie King
    Excerpt: 
Right now, there are sick and injured animals who are collapsed on the
shed floors of factory farms in Sonoma County, slowly dying. They could
get medical care that would save their lives, but the factory owners
won’t pay for it, the authorities won’t intervene, and the animal
caregivers who want to help them are threatened with years in prison.
This system is powerful. But cracks are starting to form.• The descendants of Ann Joice, one of 272 enslaved people sold to fund Georgetown • Ruth Belville, the Greenwich Time Lady • For men awaiting execution in Texas, illicit games of Dungeons & Dragons became a lifeline • A place where fools imagine no humans will tread for 100,000 years 

🌎 THE NEWS YOU NEED 🌎 • Study finds homeless people aren’t necessarily idiots
    Excerpt: 
Efforts to ease homelessness typically avoid putting money in the hands
of the unhoused, fearing it will be misused. But new research
challenges that perception, suggesting that when some homeless people
are given cash, they put it toward essentials such as housing, furniture
and transportation.

• Republican lawmakers seek to ban LGBTQ+ ‘safe place’ program in small Florida town• Google workers confront ethics of what they do • Google removes ‘pirate’ URLs from users’ privately saved links• Trucks destroyed in Oregon • US pipeline protester found guilty in trial that has an odd odor about it  • California legislature and Gov Newsom ready to kill People’s Park • A single dose of magic mushroom psychedelic can ease major depression, study finds • Nebraska governor signs executive order defining men as “bigger, stronger and faster” • All cops continue being bastards
  
 This is my other project, an ongoing collection of police brutality,
beatings, and general corruption, almost always unpunished.

♫♬  AUDIO  ♫• The Mel & Floyd Show
    Mel & Floyd is one of the few things I brought with me when I moved from Madison to Seattle. It’s a weekly one-hour radio show in which Mel & Mr Smarty-Pants deconstruct the news, always with a sense of humor. And it’s commercial-free, except during pledge drives.• Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) – Episode 109: Defund la Polizie • Welcome to the Pee-wee Herman Radio Hour! 

♫♬  MUSIC  ♫• All You Need Is Greed — Shakin’ Stevens • The Israelites — Desmond Dekker & The Aces • My Conviction — Hair • Shoop Shoop Song — Cher • Without You — Harry Nilsson 

❔  MYSTERY LINKS  ❔• Click • Click • Click • Click • Click 

👁  VIDEO  👁• How do nanoparticles grow? Atomic-scale video upends 100-year-old theory • Letting the chickens out for recess • Sacha Baron Cohen’s remarks at 60th anniversary of March on Washington 

⚰️  OBITUARIES  ⚰️ • Sliman Bensmaia • Jimmy Buffett • Léa Garcia • Ruth Greenfield • Nick Hitchon • Jean Lowy • Alexandra Paul • Jack Sonni • Tempt One • Zijie Yan

9/3/2023   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.