CRANKY OLD FART’S
NEWS & LINKS
#353 [archive]
• Archdiocese of San Francisco likely to file bankruptcy following hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits
The Catholic Church is one of the richest entities on this planet, but we’ll let them pretend their San Francisco branch is a separate entity, file bankruptcy so they never have to pay, and the church can get away with centuries of kiddie-diddling and continue kiddie-diddling until the Rapture.• US utilities oppose Biden efforts to make gas power plants cleaner
End of discussion, right there. If the Edison Electric Institute opposes the clean-up regs, then there will be no clean-up. It’s just another snapshot of the world’s rich and powerful, destroying the world. Smile pretty for the camera…• “Glacial outburst” flooding destroys at least 2 buildings, prompts evacuations in Alaskan capital of Juneau
Climate change isn’t even mentioned in the coverage, though it’s clearly a major contributing factor: “Such floods, known as glacial outburst floods, happen when glaciers melt and pour massive amounts of water into nearby lakes.”
• Wingnut hate group sues left-wing activist who infiltrated the meetings and named members • New investigation exposes the stomach-churning practice that goes into making your bacon
• Financier for Sound of Freedom, the wingnut anti-trafficking film, arrested for child kidnapping
And big surprise — the fans of the film, all frenzied over child kidnappings, do not care a whit.• Republican candidates sow suspicion and distrust of government institutions • All cops continue being bastards
🖯 MY BROWSER HISTORY 🖯• Branch Rickey as anti-hero • Dude says he didn’t kill his wife:
An oral history of The Fugitive (movie) • North American English dialects, based on pronunciation patterns • Who’s the world’s largest ‘landowner’? • A chat with William Friedkin
♫♬ AUDIO ♫• At 17 — Janis Ian • Fuck tha Police — N W A. • Keep Banging On Your Drum — Craig Ferguson • Maggot Brain — Funkadelic • Me and Bobby McGee — Janis Joplin
📸 IMAGES 📸• Dress code • Cut, copy, and paste • Fleshy memes
❔ MYSTERY LINKS ❔• Click • Click • Click • Click • Click
👁 VIDEO 👁• The Shoplifter
“A convicted shoplifter displays stealing methods under actual conditions and explains how employees could have prevented the thefts.”• To Hear Your Banjo Play (1947, narrated by Pete Seeger)
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️• William Friedkin • Bram Moolenaar • Charles Ogletree • Arthur Schmidt
8/8/2023 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, Cogent Coquette, Depsidase, Kottke,org, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, MetaFilter, Miss Miriam’s Mirror, RanPrieur.com, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Wynn Bruce,
Joey Jo Jo, 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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