Here in Seattle, before moving away 30+ years ago, for a while I rode the #39 bus to the end of the line five days a week.Not … [read more]
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$50,000 for Donald Trump
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At the life insurance company where I work, the work is processing newly-purchased policies. I’ve been at this job for years, but never seen anything quite like this before:
It’s a $50,000 insurance policy, purchased with a $500 down-payment and monthly payments of $74.12.
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Everything I own
This is not a new or profound thought, and it’s only a symptom of the actual problem — capitalism without constraint.America is alleged to be a democracy, but we the people aren’t in charge. … [read more]
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News & Links: Saturday, July 29, 2023
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CRANKY OLD FART’S
NEWS & LINKS
#349 [archive] • Houston schools eliminate librarians and convert libraries into disciplinary centers at “New Education System” schools • Michigan bans torture of LGBTQ youth (a/k/a “conversion therapy”) • Black man living in nice Georgia neighborhood now routinely films white neighbors asking him what he’s doing there• Texas church firebombed weeks after visit from anti-LGBTQ wingnut • Disney, Netflix aggressively hiring AI content scabs amid writer/actor strike
• IHOP in Massachusetts to be taken by eminent domain, demolished to make way for a parking garage
I’ve
never been to Massachusetts and hate IHOP, but eminent domain ought to
be used rarely, and only for projects that undeniably build a better
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Breakfast at the Diner #58
The diner is crowded, but it shouldn’t be. I’m here at my normal time, early early, because the diner is not supposed to be busy at 6:09 in the morning. … [read more]
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Wasting his life on drugs
On a #99 bus far later than my usual #99, it was a luxury not having to hope for a seat. Rush hour had been hours earlier, so there weren’t many passengers. … [read more]
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The Honeymoon Killers,
and a few more movies THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#167 [archive]
The Honeymoon Killers (1969)Martha
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Denise at 22
Denise Louie was a young woman I worked with, at an office job in the mid-1970s. She wasn’t a friend, but she didn’t annoy the hell out of me, and that’s rare. … [read more]
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News & Links: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
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’
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Dark Days,
and a few other movies
FILM FESTIVAL
#166 [archive]Dark Days (2000) Under the streets of Manhattan, a town’s worth of people live makeshift lives in the holes, alcoves, and blank space abutting an old but still in-use Amtrak tunnel. … [read more]
