by Paul Modic
Late in the afternoon I stopped at a rest area but there was no shade to walk under while eating so I stayed in the car listening to the Ben Franklin biography and munching on one of the chicken salad sandwiches I’d made that morning at the motel in Barstow. … [read more]
In San Francisco, street preachers were common in the slum neighborhood where I lived. Each preacher had his regular corner and was usually standing there, telling passers-by that God sent his son to die on a cross for their sins (as if nobody’d heard the story before). … [read more]
CRANKY OLD FART
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#342 [archive]
• Johnson & Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer
Suing scientists over their research is a bad look, J&J.• … [read more]
Let’s open with “My Prayer,” by the Platters. I always liked the tune, but didn’t want to sing a song about prayer, so I wrote these lyrics instead:My balls
are a rapture in balls
under peter, two pauls
skin that literally crawls
That’s childish, yes, but I was 12 when I wrote it, not long after I’d used a hand-held mirror to examine my testicles. … [read more]
CRANKY OLD FART
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#341 [archive]
• H&R Block and other tax-prep firms shared “extraordinarily sensitive” data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say
End the entire racket, already. … [read more]
FILM FESTIVAL
#162 [archive]
Emily the Criminal (2022) Emily has a criminal record, but it’s petty stuff —
a DWI, and an assault charge. … [read more]
The few competent bosses I’ve worked for all had one thing in common — an open-door policy.
They’d sit in their private offices, while we workers sat in the cubicle farm, but unless they were in a meeting or something, the boss at least left his/her door open. … [read more]
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#340 [archive]
• Bank of America to pay $250M in refunds, fines over customer abuses
Google tells me BofA’s net worth is around $228-billion, so these fines and refunds add up to about 1/10th of 1% of the company’s value. … [read more]