CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #420  [archive] MAY 4, 2024

Biden’s top economic advisor rambles incoherently when asked a simple question
    Economics is about 88% bullshit. Once past the very basic rules of supply and demand, it’s more and more comprised of gibberish like this, but you don’t usually hear it so very unpolished. Evergreen State College agrees to explore Israel divestment after deal with students
    Excerpt: Protesters at The Evergreen State College in Olympia agreed to remove their week-old encampment Tuesday night after striking a deal with administrators that includes the school publicly calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and exploring divestment from companies that profit from “the occupation of Palestinian territories.”
    Me again: That’s a small, symbolic gesture, utterly painless. Any school that’s not openly, proudly evil, like Columbia University, should be able to make a similar agreement. 

Cops watch as anti-genocide protesters are attacked at UCLA
    Excerpt: … Students and reporters for multiple outlets said university-hired security forces locked themselves in nearby buildings and police looked on for hours before intervening. …
    Me again: This is an example of The Guardian being, as usual, a better-than-average news source. In other coverage of this (L.A. Times, N.Y. Times), the dozen or so masked people who attacked protesters are repeatedly called ‘counter-protesters’.
    By what stretch of milquetoast journalism is assault and battery a ‘counter-protest’? 

15 Portland police cars badly burned Thursday morning; arson suspected
    Arson is not ‘suspected’ here. It’s confirmed, unless police are also investigating spontaneous combustion.

History of pot prohibition in America
    Excerpt:
… In 1914, one of the first cannabis drug raids in the nation occurred
in the Mexican-American neighborhood of Sonoratown in Los Angeles, where
police raided two “dream gardens” and confiscated a wagonload of
cannabis. …
    Me again: It’s always been racism, always.

God tells Dr Phil to attack the “woke mob” Florida’s wingnut Governor signs first-in-nation ban on sale of lab-grown meat 

Students share what it’s like to graduate amid massive campus protests What happens when Google censors news to protect its bottom line?  

Myth of ‘superhuman strength in Black people persists in ‘excited delirium” deadly encounters with police How the right-wing turned protest into a criminal enterprise

♫♬ MY KIND OF MUSIC  ♫ All That
by Sparks Hocus Pocus
by Focus Marilyn and Joe
by Kinky Friedman Them Belly Full, But We Hungry
by Bob Marley & the Wailers War
by Sinéad O’Connor 

⚰️  OBITUARIES  ⚰️Antonio Cantafora
actor, Supermen Against the OrientAnne Innis Dagg
giraffeologist Duane Eddy
rock’n’roller, “Rebel Rouser” Alice Holloway Young
teacher, human rights activist Robert Martin
human rights activist Ben “Nature” Beeman
forgotten man Richard Tandy
rock’n’roller, Electric Light Orchestra

5/4/2024   
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, Chuff, Dirty Blonde Mind, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, Lemmy.world, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, Miss Miriam’s Mirror, Mr Souza’s Happy Place, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Wynn Bruce,
Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, 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.