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| CRANKY OLD FART'S BROWSER HISTORY #410 [archive] MAR. 22, 2024 |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg award ceremony canceled after fallout over honorees
I've always thought highly of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and I'll continue
to, but she must've been a doddering shell of senility in her last
years, as she stayed on the Supreme Court when Obama could've named her
replacement, and died instead for Donald Trump.
And she must've been mentally absent to endow an award like this, without enough
fine print to ensure it wouldn't be given to three assholes at once —
Michael Milken, Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk.
Climate models can’t explain 2023's huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Not "could be." We are.
Climate change is causing trees to struggle to "breathe"
Excerpt: Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon
dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer
serve as a solution for offsetting humanity’s carbon footprint as the
planet continues to warm, according to a new study led by Penn State
researchers.
Me again: This is (another) tipping point. The battle's been lost without a battle.
'No theatre on a dead planet': climate activists disrupt Broadway show
I love this, especially since the play was Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, which is about being punished for speaking a truth people don't want to hear.
The Supreme Court’s confusing new border decision, explained
Excerpt: Though this order is temporary, the result is quite surprising. Texas’s law, which allows state officials to arrest migrants and state courts to order them deported to Mexico, violates 150 years of settled law establishing that the federal government, and not the states, gets to decide which foreign nationals may enter or remain in the United States.
Me again: With this flamboyantly corrupt Supreme Court, there's no such thing as "settled law."
World's population to fall for first time since the Black Death
Some good news at last — you're welcome!
Republican commissioners have single-handedly blocked FEC action against Trump 29 times
Global ocean heat has hit a new record every single day for the last year
State Medicaid offices target dead people's homes to recoup their health care costs
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent
GM, LexisNexis sued for (nontransparent) sale of driver behavior data to insurers
Trump predicts "bloodbath" if he loses election, and claims "Biden beat Obama"
Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, praises "very valuable" potential of Gaza's "waterfront property"
How Trump's allies are winning the war over disinformation
Republican US Senator: Malevolent supernatural forces are working to undermine America
Carol Doda was no feminist pioneer. She was something else altogether.
I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns.
♫♬ MUSIC ♫
Fanfare for the Common Man — Emerson Lake & Palmer
Over at the Frankenstein Place — Rocky Horror
Time Has Come Today — The Chambers Brothers
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
Emmet Bergin
actor, Excalibur
Neeli Cherkovski
poet
Dianne Crittenden
casting director, Star Wars
Frans de Waal
monkey butt researcher
John Farrell
fed the hungry
Martin Greenfield
tailor
Anne Heywood
actress, The Fox
Bryan Malinowski
gun enthusiast
Shigeichi Negishi
inventor of karaoke
James Robinson III
monster, American Express
David Seidler
screenwriter, The King's Speech
Chris Simon
hockey player, Washington Capitals
Tom Stafford
astronaut
Vernor Vinge
author, A Deepness in the Sky
M. Emmet Walsh
actor, Blood Simple
3/22/2024
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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