CRANKY OLD FART
WITH THE NEWS #334
Thursday, June 29, 2023
• Supreme Court ends Affirmative Action Wherever anything’s left that doesn’t suck about America, count on this Republican Supreme Court to put an end to it. —DH • Supreme Court ruling leaves big questions for the 2024 election • “Not for employee use”: why are US retail workers denied chairs? • Delaware House tees up bill to allow corporations to vote
• National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers • How often do health insurers say no to patients? No-one knows. • Adding more lanes to freeways is fruitless, yet another study finds • 2,200 forgotten vintage computers are being liberated from a barn in Massachusetts • Trump’s trial could be delayed until spring 2024 Or longer, and then a little longer. Heck, why not wait until Trump is dead of natural causes? —DH• “Gay furries” group hacks US state agencies that attack gender-affirming care• Reddit to unpaid moderators: “This community remaining closed to its [millions of] members cannot continue” • r/Minecraft shutters, leaving 7-million readers behind
• Pickleball injuries may cost Americans nearly $400 million this year, according to UBS
• Extreme heat is deadlier than hurricanes, floods and tornadoes combined • At least a dozen dead as heat dome bakes southern US • Overpopulation is killing this planet • New study reveals global reservoirs are becoming emptier • Climate change can turn major snow into extreme rain over mountains • How climate change is intensifying drought
• Lawsuit: Black drivers in Chicago are 4-7 times more likely to be pulled over by police than white drivers • Border Patrol video of killing shows Native man had no gun, complied with orders • “School cop” arrested after “inappropriate interactions” with students • 3-year-old put in jail for potty-training trouble by Daytona Beach Shores police officer • Livonia police criticized for [lack of] response to racist attack on Black teen • Ex-police chief gets 8 life sentences for setting series of fires targeting rivals and people he believed slighted him • Chicago police log 11,000 complaints since consent decree went into effect
• Prominent evangelist warns that Bud Light has triggered the End Times • Minnesota Republican blames global warming on Pride Month • Trump adviser suggested blowing up migrants’ boats with drones, book says • Alito’s wife leased land to an oil and gas firm while the justice fought the EPA • New Tennessee law to ban ‘divisive’ concepts in public schools • FOX News’ Jesse Watters openly questions Vice-President Harris’ gender
• Rightwingers say “pink-haired liberals” are killing New York pizza • Tuberville is only the latest Republican to take credit for massive broadband investment they voted against • Mike Pence says affirmative action is not needed because his children had a good college experience • Republican Congresswoman implies she thinks she’s being spied on via her TV • Duggar family minister tells incredible lies about US slavery • A handy guide to the Republican definition of crime
Mystery links
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My browser history
without the porn• The upstate town that took back its power • The death cult of the American car • Witness the birth of Pride: Footage of the first Gay Liberation Day March (1970) • Inside a secret lesbian sex toy smuggling ring • A quick look at America’s elite whose families made their riches from slaves • Operation Midnight Climax: The CIA mixed LSD and sex at this San Francisco brothel • No tipping at The Motormat
♫♬ It don’t mean a thing ♫
if it don’t have that swing• Black and White — 3-Dog Night • Black Magic Woman — Santana • Black Pearl — Checkmates • Leaving My Old Life Behind — Franz Ferdinand • We Don’t Need the Men — Malvina Reynolds
Eventually, everyone
leaves the building• Ed Fredkin • Sue Johanson • Robert “Say” McIntosh • Julian Sands • Roger Squires • Lisl Steiner • Lowell Weicker • Paxton Whitehead
6/29/2023 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 ye olde AVA, BoingBoing, Breakfast at Ralf’s, CaptCreate’s Log, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, One Finger Medical, Two Finger Magical, Miss Miriam’s Mirror, Nebulously Burnished, 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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