CRANKY OLD FART’S
NEWS & LINKS
#348  [archive]
• Doctors who put patients’ lives at risk with COVID misinformation are rarely punished • White
Alabama mayor says even if he did have a “secret meeting” to keep Black
mayor out of office, it’s not “so egregious” as to be a civil rights
violation • French town tries a novel approach to slow idiot drivers • ‘We regret this bike lane’: Prank signs installed along SF’s Valencia Street

• Antarctic sea ice levels dive in ‘five-sigma event’
    “To say unprecedented isn’t strong enough,” Dr Doddridge said.
    “For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it’s five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we’d expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.• Florida ocean temperature tops 100°F, setting potential record  • Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests• Patients are being severely burned from falling on ground in Arizona heatwave
    Well, point of order, not from falling on the ground. Fall on the ground and you’ll be OK if you don’t break anything. Fall on asphalt, though, and your skin is gonna fry.

• Right-wingnut Dennis Prager’s videos are approved as an educational resource for Florida, K-12
    There isn’t enough snark in the universe for a clever retort here.
    Kids who work very, very hard can overcome almost any adversity, but it’s breathtaking to intentionally teach kids to be stupid. • Jury decides Idaho wingnuts must pay more than $50m for defaming hospital
    Yeah, but this is Ammon Bundy, so the “must” in the headline is probably incorrect — he didn’t show up for the trial, and isn’t going to write a check. If you know anything about Bundy, you know he’ll continue living his life above the law, above any government, above any court and any verdict. • DeSantis staff keep boosting Twitter account that makes Nazi memes • Nazi staffer fired from DeSantis’s office
    But it’s only a routine downsizing, and has nothing to do with his Nazi streak.• All cops continue being bastards

🖯  MY BROWSER HISTORY  🖯• How the ultrawealthy use private foundations to bank millions in tax deductions while giving the public little in return • Why prepared rotisserie chickens are cheaper than ones you cook yourself? • “Those disturbers of my rest”: The first treatise on bedbugs (1730) 

♫♬  AUDIO  ♫• Beverly Hills Cop — Harold Faltermeyer • In the City — The Eagles • Mission Impossible — Lalo Schifrin • Money Changes Everything — Cyndi Lauper • Respect — Aretha Franklin 

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

👁  VIDEO  👁• Heroin addicts in Dublin, 1973 • “Resist,” by Janis Ian • Temperature anomalies, January-June, 1924-2023 • Why people don’t wait for a walk sign, in one video 

🕸 WISDOM OF THE WEB 🕸• Anyone who went to school before 2000, do you remember…? • Hug a squirrel 

⚰️  OBITUARIES  ⚰️ • Pamela Blair • Miles Feinstein • Brad Houser • Sinéad O’Connor

7/26/2023   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, CaptCreate’s Log, Cogent Coquette, Depsidase, Kottke,org, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, One Finger Medical, Two Finger Magical, Miss Miriam’s Mirror, Nebulously Burnished, RanPrieur.com, Switching to Glide, 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.