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| CRANKY OLD FART'S BROWSER HISTORY #402 [archive] JAN. 28, 2024 |
Schools are using surveillance tech to catch students vaping, snaring some with harsh punishments
To protect kids from the perils of vaping, they threaten to ruin kids' lives.
Biden says he’ll shut down the border on "day one" if deal gives him authority
Republicans will keep saying the border’s a crisis every two years, just before the elections, whether Biden plays Republican or not. Saying what he said will only turn off decent people, lessening the already-minimal enthusiasm for his re-election.
Judge releases last of the 'Newburgh Four,' excoriates FBI for the entrapment it calls 'counter-terrorism'
Excerpt: … The FBI had a guy committing actual crimes but chose to focus on four men Judge McMahon said were “hapless, easily manipulated and penurious petty criminals,” rather than the terroristic masterminds the government portrayed them as while securing 25 year sentences for the men.
James Cromitie is the last of the “Newburgh Four” to be released. The government portrayed him as the ringleader of this (imaginary) four-person terrorist cell. Cromitie is now free, albeit after having lost 15 years of his life to the federal prison system.
Boeing’s manufacturing, ethical lapses go back decades
Global warming was primary cause of unprecedented Amazon drought, study finds
How beloved indie blog The Hairpin turned into an AI clickbait farm
Kentucky Republicans push to legalize killing homeless people
High-profile Republicans push Texas to defy Supreme Court razor-wire ruling
How Republicans could legally steal this year's Presidential election
FCC to end broadband discounts for poor people after Republicans undermine program
The White House has its own pharmacy — and, boy, was it shady under Trump
Inmate died after jail medical staff denied him HIV medication for months, lawsuit alleges
Internal audit slams shoddy investigations of police shootings. St Louis keeps it secret.
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♫♬ MUSIC ♫
American Woman — The Guess Who
Mourning in America — Brother Ali
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
Marvin Ray Beck
forgotten man
Francisco Ciatso
wrestler, "The Journeyman"
Herbert Coward
actor, Deliverance
David Emge
actor, Dawn of the Dead
Frank Farian
rock'n'roller, Boney M
Gary Graham
actor, Star Trek: Enterprise
Rod Holcomb
TV director, The Six Million Dollar Man
"Jason"
forgotten man
Jesse Jane
porn actress, Pirates
Norman Jewison
filmmaker, Moonstruck
ABilly S. Jones-Hennin
LGBTQ rights activist
Dexter King
civil rights, the next generation
Brett Dean Nelson
friend of a friend
Charles Osgood
broadcaster, POSSLQ poet
Arno Penzias
Big Bang theory
Jerry Pryor
street cleaner
Margaret Riley
film producer, Bombshell
Melanie Safka
rock'n'roller, "Brand New Key"
Linda K. Shropshire
forgotten woman
Steve Skaggs
baseballer, Toronto Blue Jays
David Skal
author, Dark Carnival
Margo Smith
country singer, "It Only Hurts for a Little While"
Red Swanson
baseballer, Pittsburgh Pirates
1/28/2024
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.
I'm pretty sure that's The Guess Who playing American Woman and I believe that's Tom Waits playing/singing Step Right Up (a lovely song about evening in America). but is that really ol' Tchaikovsy playing 1812?
ReplyDeleteJohn
We are so old, John, that I'm pretty sure you made the same crack last time I linked to Tchaikovsy, circa 1812.
DeleteI'm pretty sure that's The Guess Who playing American Woman and I believe that's Tom Waits playing/singing Step Right Up (a lovely song about evening in America). but is that really ol' Tchaikovsy playing 1812?
DeleteFirst smile of the morning, and soon I go to work so it'll be the only smile.
DeleteAnd thanks for the sad news that Melanie Safka has died. I sort of doubt she was a rock 'n' roller, but she could play the acoustic guitar and had a voice to sing with angels. Ms Safka and Jimi Hendrix sort of became the voices of Woodstock by accident and stunning talent. What, in heaven's name, have they done with my song? The news distribution services have their place: I get my obits here.
ReplyDeletewith thanks,
John
One of those songs, maybe one of those singers, I'd taken for granted. But it really is a fine song.
DeleteHave you heard Miley Cyrus's cover of "Look What They'd Done To My Song, Ma"? I have not, will not.
Ms Safka wrote the song, so I assume she banked the $27 ASCAP fee and forwent the thank you card. Dats what I woulda done.
Deletejtb
The obituary surprised me cuz I'd always thought the song was from Joni Mitchell. I never had the record, only heard it on the radio, and paid no attention to the DJ unless he was being funny.
DeleteThanks also for catching the death of Arno Penzias. Penzias' and Wilson's discovery of evidence of the Big Bang in a prosaic wooden time machine while trying to separate bird shit from the history of the universe was one of Richard Feynman's favorite stories about the use of inductive reasoning in tackling the really big problems of astrophysics. Of course, Dr Feynman had his own prosaic stories about discovering huge laws from small events: the spinning plates of the college dining room perhaps among the most famous.
ReplyDeleteThe obits are priceless and for this non-scientist and non-musician provide a continuity in the history of curiosity.
Thanks.
John
We live, we die, we decompose. Along the way, a few of us figure something out. Very few.
DeleteIncredibly SPICY news round up here, because I want to yell about all of them.
ReplyDeleteI remember 20 years ago when storage began to get very cheap there was an ongoing debate about surveillance — not just online (but also online) but on street corners. That debate appears to have been dead and buried. Nearly every fictional dystopia features constant surveillance because it was unnerving, and I'm old enough to remember that the fact that Thought Police managed to photograph Winston and Julia even in a meadow was shocking.
I think the only way to not lose your mind over this is to pretend it doesn't exist. It is incredible how many things we now have to pretend do not exist. Like we know very well the things that push people over the edge, and we're using it as a checklist.
Giving a damn about privacy makes us a punchline to jokes. We're nuts, conspiratorial, because what could possibly go wrong with having the internet track you eternally, having ads tailored to your desires, having cameras keeping watch over all the commons and 70% of American front porches?
DeleteIt occurred to me that some folks had gone entirely too long without hearing and seeing The Jimi Hendrix Experience play and sing The Wind Cries Mary live.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc7B4i89008
John
That is unlike what little Hendrix I've heard. Less geetar showmanship, more beat poetry. First time for me, and I love it.
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