CRANKY OLD FART’S
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#374 [archive]
10/22/2023
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• Extroverts more likely to resist vaccines, study shows
My prejudice is right out in the open: Of course extroverts are more likely to resist vaccines. They talk and talk and talk, thus do less listening, which has to mean less learning. That’s *not to say extroverts are stupider than we quiet people, however.
(They are, but it’s not nice to say it.)
• “No normal seasons any more”: seed farmers struggle amid the climate crisis
Well, gosh, this could be a problem (that we knew was coming years and years ago).
• Stephen Rubin, publisher of ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ dies after ‘sudden illness’ at 81
I’d never heard of Stephen Rubin, but the article says one of his “notable projects” was Bill O’Reilly’s series of fake history books, so his corpse can fuck off and die all over again. He doesn’t even qualify for my dead people round-up at the end of this page.
I’m linking to his obituary only to mock the bad journalism in this line from paragraph 3: “Book publishing is hard to imagine without the raspy-voiced Rubin…”
Book publishing is certainly not “hard to imagine” without this schmuck I’d never heard of. Hyperbole much? Did the author have their nose way up this Rubin character’s butt? Does AP have no editors?
• BBC confirms policy change on describing Hamas as terrorists
Being the only big-time outlet to avoid using the loaded term
‘terrorist’ was solid journalism by BBC, so of course that had to go.
That said, Hamas certainly is a terrorist group by any sane definition, and so’s the Israel Defense Forces.• Major brands that spoke out against Russia’s invasion, even pulled out of Russia, have nothing to say as Israel obliterates Palestine (again). • The Onion stands with Israel because it seems like you get in less trouble for that
• Seattle’s most innovative help-the-homeless program gets shuttered, of course, and had no support, only interference from above • The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose. • An Alabama woman was imprisoned for ‘endangering’ her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower.
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• The road less travelled in every state
• Pigeons can tell the difference between paintings by Monet and by Picasso • Free Elvis! • Amusing, Interesting, Outrageous, or Profound
This is my Lemmy page, for anything that’s (in my opinion) amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound. It’s mostly a rough draft of this page, but you’re invited to stop by.
📸 IMAGES 📸• If you have no bathroom… • Marx, 2023 • Notificator, the public robot messenger board from the 1930s
♫♬ MUSIC ♫• Another Brick in the Wall — Luther Wright and the Wrongs • Concentration Moon — Frank Zappa • Good Morning, Starshine — Hair • Ooh La La — Dustbowl Revival • Zor and Zam — The Monkees
❔ MYSTERY LINKS ❔• Click • Click • Click • Click • Click
👁 VIDEO 👁• We need more pies. A whole lot more pies.
• “Poison doesn’t always come in bottles.” —Vincent Price
“Ladies and gentlemen, poison doesn’t always come in bottles, and it isn’t always marked with the skull and crossbones of danger. Poison can take the form of words and phrases and acts: the venom of racial and religious hatred.
“Here in the United States, perhaps more than ever before, we must learn to recognize the poison of prejudice and to discover the antidote to its dangerous effects.
“Evidences of racial and religious hatred in our country place a potent weapon in the hands of our enemies, providing them with the ammunition of criticism. Moreover, group hatred menaces the entire fabric of democratic life.
“As for the antidote: you can fight prejudice, first by recognizing it for what it is, and second by actively accepting or rejecting people on their individual worth, and by speaking up against prejudice and for understanding.
“Remember, freedom and prejudice can’t exist side by side. If you choose freedom, fight prejudice.”• This is your life, Boris Karloff
🕸 WEB WISDOM 🕸• I grew up poor in the 1980s, and it beats 2023. • I’m back from a week at my mom’s house, and now I’m getting ads for her toothpaste brand. • Not a great argument
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️• Steve Alembik 🖕
• Judy Balaban • Eve Bunting • Louise Glück • Mark Goddard • Roland Griffiths • Pete Ladd • Piper Laurie • Joanna Merlin • Margot Polivy • David Shaffer • Suzanne Somers • Bud Somerville • Dwight Twilley • Ryuzo Yanagimachi • Burt Young • Yaniv Zohar
10/22/2023 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.
Joey Jo Jo emeritus, 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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