Getting old means seeing death, and I’m old, with more friends dead than alive. The only way to get past each death is to keep doing whatever you do, and this is what I do — post my life for an audience of several, now reduced by one.I’ll smother my grief under pancakes, drown it in a 40-ouncer, and watch the world go along even shittier than it already was…
CRANKY OLD FART’S
NEWS & LINKS
#358  [archive]
• FIDE bans trans women in mind-boggling new policy • Just 1% of the $3-billion in professional son-in-law Jared Kushner’s private equity firm came from sources in the United States
    But what about Hunter Biden?• Trump judge’s actual argument for abortion bans: Doctors are harmed without cute sonograms
    Be forewarned, there are large quantities of snark in this article, but entirely deserved.

• Rep Ocasio-Cortez calls on U.S. to declassify documents on Chile’s 1973 coup
    There’d be some juicy info in those docs, if ever revealed. Doesn’t everyone not wearing blinders know the US ran that operation?• Biden’s DOJ claims “there is no constitutional right to a stable climate” • World Health Organization’s aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group • County Attorney backs down, withdraws warrant, asks for return of materials seized by Kansas police in raid on newspaper, but that won’t be the end of it • California gets its first tropical storm watch 

• North Carolina legislature overrides governor’s vetoes to enact 3 bills guaranteeing transgender kids are miserable • PornHub says cease and desist to kebab shop • Former Trump adviser blames Jews for dying in Auschwitz • Judge rules HP must face class action lawsuit over disabled printers
    One certainly hopes the verdict will be substantial enough to bankrupt Hewlett-Packard, but that’s what I hope every time anyone takes a giant corporation to court, and it hasn’t happened yet.
• Fundraiser for truth-challenged Rep. George Santos charged with impersonating aide to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy • All cops continue being bastards 

🖯  MY BROWSER HISTORY  🖯• The creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live is a jackass
    This
one’s a long read from longreads.com, and I’ll confess that I didn’t
read all of it. I generally can’t read about celebrities without falling
asleep, unless it’s one of the rare few I like, and Lorne Michaels has
never been that.
    He’s a one-man factory of mundane,
predictable comedy, it’s been a long time since anything with his name
on it made me laugh, and this is the first article I’ve half-read that
portrays him as the smug and ruthless bastard he’s always seemed to be.• Lake Lanier stands as a reminder of the American history today’s leaders are trying to erase • Was
Woodstock, and indeed all of rock’n’roll, “bourgeois at its core, a
mass-produced commodity, dependent on advanced technology and therefore
on the money controlled by those in power”?
by Larry Livermore• The original Black Panthers fought in the 761st tank battalion during WWII • America’s quietest town, where cell phones are banned 

♫♬  AUDIO  ♫• A Whiter Shade of Pale — Procol Harum • Changes — David Bowie • From the Beginning — Emerson Lake & Palmer • Sing Sing Sing with a Swing — Benny Goodman and his Orchestra • What a Wonderful World — The Ramones 

📸  IMAGES  📸• Marilyn Monroe recreates her iconic predecessors for Life magazine in 1958 • The one true religion • Taunton State Hospital 

❔  MYSTERY LINKS  ❔• Click • Click • Click • Click • Click 

👁  VIDEO  👁• Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy raps to Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” • Mr Albano at East Boston High School did it his way. • Jammin’ the Blues (1944)
    Jammin’ the Blues was filmed by Gjon Mili, over four days in September 1944, released that December, and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject.

🕸 WEB WISDOM 🕸• The Black Messiah
by Sonia Weitz• It’s that damn man with a fish again • Three jobs 

⚰️  OBITUARIES  ⚰️ • Ada Deer • Bobby Eli • Joe Gallo • Alice Ladas • Betty Tyson • Gary Young

8/19/2023