CRANKY OLD FART’S
NEWS & LINKS
#356  [archive]• US inflation means families are spending $709 more per month than two years ago
    I
don’t remember prices ever rising so steadily, for everything. It is
paranoid of me to envision conversations planning this, a conspiracy
amongst corporations?• Vox’s student loan ‘expert’ is paid by debt collectors
    Huh. I’d thought of Vox as being a reasonably reliable site, but handing a page over to a shill and not even telling readers he’s a shill… Jeez, even Fox News identifies the shills with a chyron.• Kids win climate lawsuit in Montana; state’s rule against acknowledging climate change deemed unconstitutional 

• “Stressed beyond her limits”: co-owner of small-town Kansas newspaper dies after police raid • The Montgomery boat brawl and what it really means to “try that in a small town” • Muslim imam in Seattle sues over mysterious FBI watchlist • Drought causes 154-ship traffic jam at the Panama Canal • An author says unauthorized AI-written books are being sold under her name on Amazon • Illinois Gov signs legislation allowing lawsuits against firearm retailers or manufacturers • Scientists just discovered a ‘strawberry-like’ antarctic invertebrate with 20 arms 

• Republican Congressman files articles of impeachment against Biden
    “The evidence continues to mount by the day,” Steube said without providing details about the evidence he was citing.• Newest “anti-woke” tantrum: Right-wingers don’t think kids of different races can be friends • After FBI kills a man who issued numerous death threats, far-right figures claim the Biden administration is coming to kill conservatives • Republican assholes gotta be assholes, wherever they are, whatever they do • Trump praises “terrific” white supremacist conspiracy theorist • All cops continue being bastards 

🖯  MY BROWSER HISTORY  🖯• “Antifa saved their lives”: report from clergy at Charlottesville
    “The neo-Nazis just kept coming in groups over and over. We were far outnumbered, but I watched countless antifa youth risk their lives, one by one, to fight back.”• If Fox News had a DNA test, it would trace its origins to the Nixon administration • The Satanic Panic never really ended • The short list of climate actions that will work • The Elite’s war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity • The world’s infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists • Lahaina used to be a wetland • That time Lord Byron tried to buy a 12-year-old girl • Russian Woodstock? 

♫♬  AUDIO  ♫• Foggy Mountain Breakdown — Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs • In Dreams — Roy Orbison • Moonlight Serenade — Glenn Miller • She Bop — Cyndi Lauper • Wasted on the Way — Crosby Stills & Nash 

📸  IMAGES  📸• Spoilers! • Teatime for Hitchcock and the MGM lion 

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

👁  VIDEO  👁• Flash Debate
    It’s a rerun, I think, but still perfect.
• That’s a happy kid
    Sam Kerr (#20), Aussie soccer star• The Spider and the Butterfly
    Some of this, I don’t even know how they pulled it off in 1909.• Streetwalking Lawyers of Aurora Avenue 

🕸 WEB WISDOM 🕸• While many will dismiss this story as “local politics turned nasty,” I think it’s worth taking a second look • Our son’s high school prom • Coin-op laundry 

⚰️  OBITUARIES  ⚰️ • Amos Badertscher • Paul Brodeur • Lelia Goldoni • Tom Jones • Fernando Villavicencio

8/14/2023   
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, 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.