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| CRANKY OLD FART'S BROWSER HISTORY #400 [archive] JAN. 15, 2024 |
Texas National Guard "physically barred" Border Patrol agents from trying to rescue migrants who drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday
Three people are dead, but to Texas and Republicans they were Mexicans instead of people.
As cold-blooded, cruel, anti-Christian, anti-life as everything we’ve come to expect from America’s current crop of fascists, this is still kinda startling.
Are the killing pogroms beginning at last?
The Supreme Court will decide if states can force hospitals to let women die
With the possible exception of The Onion, Rolling Stone is the only mainstreamish news source that allows headlines to tell the unvarnished truth.
OK, then let's have guns in courthouses next, and also Congress, and the grounds of the White House.
Fire at Seattle art gallery damages works by Picasso, Rembrandt
This is a local story — art gallery burns — but here's the part that's pertinent to my passions:
"… Seattle Fire Department investigators ruled the fire was accidental, likely caused by a warming fire that started in the alley and extended into the building, according to the department. ..."
As I wrote a few days ago, it's been mighty cold here recently, and when that happens the homeless will build "warming fires" to get warm. How could anyone expect people chilled to the bone not to build a fire? Well, street people being perhaps not the most stalwart, upstanding citizens in out society, once in a while a fire will get out of hand.
My point is: Whatever the cost of the damages to this gallery, whatever the loss of artworks, it comes down to homelessness again — a problem our society could've solved decades ago by building free and affordable public housing. That would cost money, though, so instead we let the homeless freeze to death, overdose on drugs, be beaten to death by cretins, etc.
In every American city, we've ceded most of downtown to drunks and derelicts, we send cops to arrest them and destroy their encampments, make sure they're always more miserable, ignore their deaths, and blame the homeless for their own misery.
Fuck the art. Start giving a damn about the people.
Netflix removes Nayanthara film after backlash from Hindu groups
The language of religion is the language of intolerance, and it's spoken worldwide.
What’s going on with Harvard and Bill Ackman?
Nobody who's not at Harvard gives a rip who's president at Harvard, and neither do 99.9% of
Republicans — unless it's a black woman, in which
case Republicans will drive her out.
Marijuana meets criteria for reclassification as lower-risk drug, FDA scientific review finds
Oh, french kiss my rectum. Everyone who's not a nincompoop has known
for at least fifty years that marijuana is basically harmless.
One person killed after avalanche roars through Lake Tahoe ski resort
I'm seeing headlines phrased this way more and more often, and it's an outrage of bad grammar. There was an avalanche, and then someone died? No. The headline should be: One person killed *as* avalanche roars through Lake Tahoe ski resort, not *after*.
Victims of newsroom raids tell their stories
In 41 US states, richest 1% pay lower tax rates than everyone else
Newly discovered cosmic megastructure challenges theories of the universe
Black man framed by cops, spent 44 years in prison before exoneration, gets $25M settlement
Long-time deputy gets 21 years to life in prison for child sex abuse
Lawsuit says New Jersey jail recorded calls with attorneys, gave this info to prosecutors
Inmate's organs, including brain, missing from decomposing body; second case revealed in last month
Florida cop arrested on felony stalking charge has history of unruly behavior
EFF asks Pennsylvania’s top court to stop cops from Googling for people to arrest
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30 days in jail for one of the L.A. deputies who shot a black man 34 times
California city to pay $5m to family of Willie McCoy, who police shot 55 times
Federal prisons are over capacity, but efforts to ease overcrowding are ending
Supervillain Roger Stone discussed assassinating Democrats before 2020 election: report
Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican 'welfare state' attack
Authorities knew the insurrection of 1/6/21 was coming, and did nothing
Clarence Thomas and the bottomless self-pity of the upper classes
If you don't mind me asking, what ARE the right codewords to use on doctors and such?
• Amusing, Interesting, Outrageous, or Profound
AIOP is my Lemmy page, for anything that's (in my opinion) amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound. It's mostly a rough draft of this page, but you're invited to stop by.
Canadian military police threaten sex worker who offers discount to soldiers
Meet The Heap, "common ancestor" of the Hulk, Swamp Thing, Solomon Grundy, and Man-Thing
Kum & Go will be done and gone by 2025
BBC's spaghetti hoax [images and video]
Barbra Streisand has a mall in her basement
♫♬ MUSIC ♫
The Ecstasy of Gold, The — Metallica
I Just Want You to Hurt Like I Do — Randy Newman
Money Changes Everything — Cyndi Lauper
Monkberry Moon Delight — Paul McCarthy
Sooner or Later — The Alan Parsons Project
Star Trek Suite — Jerry Goldsmith
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
Terry Bisson
author, Fire on the Mountain
Ed Broadbent
Canadian politician
Peter Crombie
actor, Crazy Joe Davola on Seinfeld
April Ferry
costume designer, Game of Thrones
Eric Freeman
a "slowish sort of person"
Bud Harrelson
baseballer, New York Mets
Bill Hayes
soap star and singer, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"
Harry Johnson
actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Dan Marburger
educator
Phill Niblock
avant-garde composer
Annie Nightingale
dj on BBC Radio 1
Conrad Palmisano
stuntman, Weekend at Bernie's
Tom Shales
TV critic, Washington Post
1/15/2024
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, Chuff, Dirty Blonde Mind, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, Lemmy.world, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, Miss Miriam's Mirror, 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, Jeff Meyer, 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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