CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #388  [archive] NOV. 30, 2023

In Alabama, another small-town paper hit in ‘open season’ on free press
    Another obviously bogus raid on another small-town weekly newspaper. Let’s hope the paper wins enough millions of dollars in damages to be on a sound financial footing for the 22nd century. Massachusetts becomes fifth state in nation to make prison calls free
    This is a big deal. As part of the established cruelty of American jails and prisons, inmates aren’t allowed to have cellphones. Any phone access is through landline pay-phones — often charging exorbitant rates through contracts that funnel profits to the local sheriff’s office. 

America’s most dire threat is from within
    For the first time to my knowledge, a major American newspaper states the obvious, with no mealymouthed both-sides bullshit or “some say”isms. 

Grand Ole Opry in Glasgow votes to ban use of Confederate flag
    Turns out there’s another Grand Ole Opry, in Scotland, information of no use to me beyond triggering a brief headshake.
    But it got me curious enough to google the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. On their site, the only mention of Confederate flags is on the band Lucero’s page (“Lucero have formulated their own ideas and culture which, in some cases, contradicts what came before them (no Confederate flags), but also updates and reconsiders those traditions in a new light.”).
   Which means that the stars and bars remain AOK at the original Opry, because country music is largely redneck music, and redneck racists rule the South.

 The Mohammed Image Archive
    Behind that link, the page describes itself as “a comprehensive compendium of images that depict Mohammed (the 7th-century founder of Islam), spanning all historical periods, cultures, genres, styles, formats and themes.”
    I was especially amused at the 1980 postage stamp from the Islamic Republic of Iran, with an image of the prophet on it.  

Florida Republican-backed ballot measure would ban reparations for descendants of slaves
    Reparations for blacks will never happen, of course, so this is merely intended to remind blacks that they’re despised.

After strike wins, UAW announces push to organize nonunion plants
    I would like to bear UAW President Shawn Fain’s child. 

 What a third world war would mean for investors
    From The Economist, un-read and of no interest to anyone sane, but the headline’s a laugh. That the way they think.  

Students for Trump leader faces charges for striking girlfriend in the head with a pistol So you wanna be a cop? 

How Alice Cooper and Groucho Marx got to be midnight buds Maybe I should look into this ‘no-food diet’
Napoleon had planned to retire, to New Orleans 

• Amusing, Interesting, Outrageous, or Profound
    AIOP is my Lemmy page, for anything that’s (in my opinion) amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound. It’s mostly a rough draft of this page, but you’re invited to stop by.

♫♬  MUSIC  ♫ Chocolate Rain — Tay Zonday Hey Bulldog — Fanny Lookin’ Out My Back Door — Creedence Clearwater Revival Red Right Hand — Nick Cave Right Field — Peter Paul & Mary 

⚰️  OBITUARIES  ⚰️Thomas Augsberger
Hollywood big-shot, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil Ociel Baena
non-binary activist Luigi Caiola
Broadway producer, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Mary Cleave
astronaut, went twice into space Tim Dorsey
Serge Storms novelist Stephen G. Jurczyk
NASA administrator🖕 Henry Kissinger
Nobel Peace Prize, war criminal Jean Knight
rocker, “Mr. Big Stuff” Aldo Lado
filmmaker, Night Train Murders Mali
an elephant alone🖕 Charlie Munger
Berkshire Hathaway billionaire’s billionaire
John Nichols
author, The Sterile Cuckoo Laurence Payne
progressive activistCecil Sandford
fastest man on two wheels Elliot Silverstein
moviemaker, The Car, Cat Ballou Frances Sternhagen
actress, Outland Sticky Vicky
ping pong balls from her vagina

11/30/2023