CRANKY OLD FART’S
🖯 BROWSER HISTORY 🖯
#361  [archive]
• All eyes are rightfully on newspaper raid in Kansas, but these press freedom violations also deserve attention • When San Francisco said no to a freeway through Golden Gate Park • How Yippies “stuck it to the man” at the 1968 Democratic convention  • Why subway surfers find it so hard to quit • How ancient peoples learned to count 

🌎 THE NEWS YOU NEED 🌎 • Bernie Sanders urges left to back Biden to stop “very dangerous” Trump
    Always, the left is supposed to support whatever bland middle-of-the-road candidate the Democrats put forward, candidates who seem idea-free and utterly without passion, because the Republicans have another terrifying candidate, always scarier than the last terrifying candidate. … [read more]

Anyone who reads a few entries on this blog knows I’m wide-open about my life, my doubts, insecurities, everything. Only on this website, though — in the company of other actual humans, I am always behind a wall, sometimes multiple walls.Even … [read more]

Watching a movie yesterday, the score had five notes in a row that matched a melody I hadn’t heard in many, many years — a hymn. … [read more]

THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#179  [archive]
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)[Streaming free at Internet Archive]The marvelous Jean Arthur stars, in this weird and somewhat woke workplace comedy. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S
🖯 BROWSER HISTORY 🖯
#360  [archive]
• “I can’t take this shit no more”: Alabama prisoner takes a stand
    Hell of a story from a perspective we’re rarely allowed. … [read more]

 
When
I was a little kid, Mom did the laundry, but around the time I started making my own sandwiches, she decided I was old enough
to clean my own dirty clothes. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S
NEWS & LINKS
#359  [archive]
• The secret weapon hackers can use to dox nearly anyone in America for $15 • Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store in rural California • Court orders high-ranking Catholic pedophiles and pedophile-protector’s names released • Town fires librarian who worked there for 11 years because she refused to remove LGBTQ+ books • Jewish space lasers are causing the wildfires, say the same loons who believe everything Trump says • International Chess Federation’s argument for banning trans women gives the game away • Palo Alto embraces a community-owned multi-gigabit broadband network after decades of talk • Georgia teacher fired after reading book on gender to fifth-grade class • Interview with owner of Marion County Record:
So how did that flagrantly illegal raid on a Kansas newspaper happen? • … [read more]

As the world literally burns, half a dozen of the summer’s wildfires are near enough that Sunday’s air was gray like fog, and smelled faintly of smoke. … [read more]