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| CRANKY OLD FART'S BROWSER HISTORY #407 [archive] MAR. 2, 2024 |
Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history
You'll be seeing headlines like this more and more often, for the rest of your life.
Let them eat Flakes: Kellogg’s CEO says poor families should consider "cereal for dinner"
When do we start storming the corporate castles? Seriously, when? I am not joking.
Biden planning to hit food 'shrinkflation', corporate greed in State of the Union
The stupidity of this amazes me. With everything going on, is Biden really dumb enough to use the State of the Union Address, his biggest Presidential bully pulpit in an election year, to complain about shrinkflation?
The internet is filling up with "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans
My pledge to you: I might be stupid, but I'm real.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California) trolls the Hunter Biden hearings
SWALWELL: Any time your father was in government, prior to the Presidency or before, did he ever operate a hotel?
SWALWELL: So he’s never operated a hotel where foreign nationals spent millions at that hotel while he was in office?
BIDEN: No, he has not.
SWALWELL: Did your father ever employ in the Oval Office any direct family member to also work in the Oval Office?
BIDEN: My father has never employed any direct family members, to my knowledge.
SWALWELL: While your father was President, did anyone in the family receive 41 trademarks from China?
BIDEN: No.
BIDEN: No. And I don’t think that anyone in my family would be crazy enough to want to be the chairperson of the DNC.
SWALWELL: Has your father ever in his time as an adult been fined $355 million by any State that he worked in?
BIDEN: No, he has not, thank God.
SWALWELL: Anyone in your family ever strike a multibillion dollar deal with the Saudi Government while your father was in office?
BIDEN: No.
SWALWELL: That’s all I’ve got.
The Vice Media collapse was entirely the fault of incompetent, fail-upward brunchlords
Humpback sex photographed for first time – and both whales were male
Israeli troops 'fire on people waiting for aid' as Gaza death tolls hits 30,000
• For comparison: Civilian deaths in Ukraine war top 10,000, UN says [November 2023]
There's nothing more American than a mass shooting on the anniversary of the one you survived
District court blocks Texas's demand for PFLAG's trans membership rolls
To comply with new anti-minority law, University of Florida fires all diversity-related employees
Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies
Republicans ask Supreme Court to further limit women's access to health care
Missouri Republican candidate for Governor was only 'honorary' KKK member
Alabama Republicans want to legally define 'male' and 'female'
Amid measles outbreak, Florida's wingnut Surgeon General goes against medical guidance
Kind of weird that the Supreme Court feels the need to consider whether or not laws exist
• Trump's team "literally popping champagne" over Supreme Court taking up bullshit immunity claim
Fifth Circuit un-sticks it to the man (again) says cops can't be sued for raiding the wrong house
NYPD misconduct settlements have cost the city half a billion dollars in 6 years
Uncle of 10-year-old killed in Uvalde mass shooting arrested for saying f*ck to ex-police chief
Hollywood A-list directors band together to save historic Village Theater in Los Angeles
Peter Bogdanovich directing Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in What’s Up, Doc?
♫♬ MUSIC ♫
Excentrifugal Forz & Apostrophe — Frank Zappa
One and One, Giant Behemoth — Joe Walsh
These Boots Were Made for Walking — Eileen
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
I'm saddened to hear about David Bordwell's death. Great writer and thinker. My wife took his class at UW-Madison, and was always proud of getting an A for her analysis of Alien. We had dinner with Bordwell once, and of course, we always read his books and his blog.
David Bordwell
film historian, blogger
Aaron Bushnell
activist
Edie Ceccarelli
old person
José DeLeón
baseballer, St. Louis Cardinals
Charles Dierkop
actor, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Flaco
free bird
Ramona Fradon
comic book illustrator, Metamorpho
Kelvin Kiptum
marathon runner
Richard Lewis
comedian, actor, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Jackie Loughery
actress, The D.I.
John "Duff" Lowe
rock'n'roller, The Quarrymen
John Oldham
one-game baseballer, Cincinnati Reds
Héctor Ortiz
baseballer, Texas Rangers
Brian Stableford
author, Cradle of the Sun
Collin Weller
forgotten man
3/2/2024
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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