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| CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #421 [archive] MAY 9, 2024 |
Many climate scientists predict a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms Only “semi-dystopian,” eh? Such optimism!
New York Times editor says Trump’s danger to democracy is not a top concern
Excerpt: “It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have. At the moment, democracy is one of them. But it’s not the top one — immigration happens to be the top [of polls], and the economy and inflation is the second. Should we stop covering those things because they’re favorable to Trump and minimize them?”
—New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn
America’s unseen book bans: the long history of censorship in prisons Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California?
TikTok dances into court, slams ban as unconstitutional Seattle cop who joked about pedestrian killed by speeding cop will speak on traffic safety at conference
Biden is on board with the lie, equating campus protests with antisemitism
There has been a “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America,” but it’s not on campus. It’s from the same people who are ferociously racist and anti-LGBTQ, and now lying that anti-genocide means anti-semitism.
I don’t doubt that there’s a sprinkling of anti-semites among the protesters, same as there are anti-semites at baseball games and everywhere else in America. Anyone violent or threatening violence needs to be arrested and prosecuted, of course.
But in all this campus hubbub over the past month, the violent and frightening people are the ones ordering the end of protests. And now the President of the United States is standing behind the people ordering the end of protests.
The real takeover of Columbia University was by those on the right Who has the right to “disrupt” the University?
The mainstream media distorted our anti-Vietnam War protests 50 years ago. They’re following the same strategy today. State of Florida tells universities to take ‘any steps necessary’ to prevent pro-Palestine protests
♫♬ MY KIND OF MUSIC ♫ Desperados Under the Eaves
by Warren Zevon Hold Your Head Up
by Argent PeeWee’s Suite
by Danny Elfman Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie
by Blood Sweat and Tears You Ain’t Been Doing Nothing If You Ain’t Been Called A Red
by Risky Biscuit
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️Steve Albini
rock’n’roller, poker player Zoey Alexandria
voice actress, Dead By Daylight Susan Buckner
actress, Grease Lynn Ellsworth
made Eddie Van Halen’s guitar Jeannie Epper
stunt performer, Wonder Woman Ian Gelder
actor, Torchwood Bernard Hill
actor, Titanic Frank Stella
arty guy
5/9/2024
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, Mr Souza’s Happy Place, 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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