The #560 bus, my usual route from West Seattle to Renton or the east side, includes a stop inside Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. I’ve ridden that bus through the airport fifty times, and there’s always construction — the airport is being expanded with new parking garages, new terminals, new hangers, new amenities, or other new newnesses.
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Reflecting back, even when I was a kid, riding along to pick up my dad after one of his business trips, the airport was always being torn apart and rebuilt, bigger and better.It’s the same in other cities where I’ve lived — doesn’t matter whether the economy is weak or strong, there is eternally heavy construction underway at the airport. Every airport, everywhere.
What a limitless budget there is, for eternal “improvements” to jet-setters’ infrastructure, while funding for parks and schools and libraries and COVID vaccines are slashed.
Religion is maybe the world’s biggest and definitely its most persistent problem. It’s the cause or a contributing factor for most wars, most mental illnesses, most suicides, and most stupidities. Listen to the very dumbest politics from the very dumbest people, and it won’t be long before they bring up God.
How different would be world history, if religion hadn’t always been a bludgeon to keep people down. How marvelously advanced America could be, if God wasn’t part of every public discussion.People gullible enough to believe God loves them, while also fearing God’s wrath — when there’s zilch to prove the love, the wrath, or the God — are easy marks for charlatans and lying politicians. It’s no coincidence that Donald Trump is wildly popular among the religious. The stronger any believer’s belief in God, the more likely they’ll also believe in Trump, or Mussolini, etc.
The very first step toward a solution is taxing the churches, prosecuting the religious fraudsters, relentlessly mocking the believers, and of course, shutting down the Catholic Church for it’s 2,000+-year operation as a pedophiles’ paradise.
Oh, have I pissed you off?I’m in a bad mood this morning. Pray about it, why don’t ya?
Wingnut Museum opens in Berkeley
“I want to take a moment to acknowledge the freaks, the weirdos, the unhinged leftists, the coffee shop punishers, the people carrying too many things on their bicycles,” he said. “I hope this museum can continue to be a tribute to the wingnuts that came before us, the wingnuts of tomorrow, and most of all, the wingnuts that we are today.”
Killer of zinester Jen Angel gets 7-year prison sentence
… A longtime activist, Angel often argued against institutions like policing, jails and prisons in favor of non-carceral models of justice, suggesting that decades-long prison stints did little to affect the root causes of harmful behavior. …”We know that Jen would not want someone involved in her death, whether complicit or not, to waste away in prison for decades, and we take some comfort in knowing Ishmael has a chance to repair some of the harm he has caused,” the statement added.
Cori Bush loses primary to Democrat backed by $8.5-million from AIPAC
Moon “spiders” suggest extensive underground lunar caves
Yes, Trump was in a scary helicopter ride, but not with that black politician — it was a *different* black politician … “I said, ‘Willie, you know what? That’s me!’” Holden said. “And I told him, ‘You’re a short Black guy and I’m a tall Black guy — but we all look alike, right?”Holden gave his own height as 6-foot-1. “Willie has to be about 5-foot-6. Maybe 5-foot-5. He comes up to about my shoulders. And he’s bald. And I’m not bald.” …
Thousands of senior citizens are dying homeless in Los Angeles, records reveal
“It’s almost like they want me to die”: People homeless in Jacksonville describe barriers to housing
Ad industry initiative abruptly shuts down after lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X
“It’s torture”: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmates
Team USA rugby medalist becomes free healthcare advocate after discovering it in Olympic Village
Americans, especially Republicans, increasingly regard childhood vaccinations as un-important
Climate emergency:• Alaska’s North Slope sees record-breaking heat, among state’s other climate oddities • Cello-playing climate activist arrested at New York Citibank protest as crackdown escalates • Utah’s famed Double Arch collapses … but there’s money to be made, so la di da, la di da.
The Republican road to fascism: • Republican activist, facing nine felony charges for fake electors scheme, accepts plea deal offer of unsupervised probation • Mixed-race voters say Donald Trump’s attacks on Kamala Harris’ race are painfully familiar • It just got easier for Trump to block election results in Georgia • Trump bizarrely blames Harris for turned-Black remark: “She said it. I didn’t say it” • Cognitive experts have theories about why Trump keeps losing his train of thought • ‘Edgelords’ and ‘butt-sniffers’: will Trump’s tour of hyper-masculine podcasts win over young men?
All cops are bastards: • Seattle cop who drove police SUV 74 mph in 25 zone, killing woman in crosswalk, had no valid license at the time, and is challenging traffic ticket for the wreck • Judge declines to dismiss excessive force case against city of Burlington VT for 2021 use of handcuffs, spit hood, and ketamine on disabled 14 year old accused of stealing vape pens • Bronx cop indicted for banned chokehold has history of choking and assault cases • 10 years after Ferguson cops killed Michael Brown, police killings are not going down
⚡ LINKS FOR THINKS ⚡ • Should I stay or should I go? Am I ready to live like a refugee?
by Larry Livermore • Criminal defense lawyer J. Tony Serra: “Tony hates rats.”
by Jonah Raskin
⚰️ DEAD PEOPLE ⚰️Genesis Burgueno
forgotten person Simin Farkhondeh
producer, The Gulf Crisis TV Project Jack Karlson
meme, “This is democracy manifest” Mitzi McCall
comedian Sean “Dragoneer” Piche
victim of American health care system Jeremy Strong
author, My Sister’s Got a Spoon Up Her Nose Maurice Williams
rock’n’roller, “Stay” Mary Wings
zinester, Come Out Comix
8/11/2024 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 Anderson Valley Advertiser, Atomic Raunch, Bleepity-Bleep, Breakfast at Ralf’s, Dirty Blonde Mind, Ensalada de lengua de pajaritos, Jesus Is My Hostage, Lemmy.world, A Sudden Violent Jerk, 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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