A sorry-looking 50-something white woman got onto the bus, carrying a newspaper in one hand and an open can of beer in the other, with a backpack over her shoulder. … [read more]
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The News: Monday, July 10. 2023
CRANKY OLD FART
WITH THE NEWS #339• Biden to nominate Elliott Abrams, who lied over Iran-Contra, to key panel
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A good guy
On my way to breakfast with the family one fine Saturday morning, I was waiting at the transit center for my second bus. It’s a two-bus trip, coming and going. … [read more]
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Good, bad, and way overpriced eats
This is junk food writing, sorry, but I’m working on something more substantial, I promise.♦ ♦ ♦ I’m always interested in food that’s cheap, good, and easy, so today — one find, one fraud, and then another fraud. … [read more]
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Yes, you CAN run away from your problems.
It turns out, you really can run away from your problems, or most of them.
When I was a kid, I skipped a lot of school, never did homework, rarely did my chores, didn’t eat vegetables, and constantly ducked out of whatever I was supposed to be doing. … [read more]
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The News: Friday, July 7, 2023
CRANKY OLD FART
WITH THE NEWS #337
• “Double agents”: fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis• Trumpian Judge restricts Biden administration’s ability to stem misinformation on social media • For the first time, US allows UN investigators to take to Guantanamo victims • Dylan Mulvaney says Bud Light did nothing to defend her against an avalanche of harassment from right-wingers • Oklahoma schools superintendent says Tulsa race massacre wasn’t, um, about race
• The Arctic is farting ‘ancient’ methane and it’s scary as hell • Experts say climate change likely to increase US malaria cases • Human adaptation to heat can’t keep up with human-caused climate change • Malaria is back in Florida and Texas
• California sheriff’s deputy accused of raping intoxicated victim: police • Multiple David Sosas ask Supreme Court to overturn decision saying it’s fine to arrest ANY David Sosa when cops are seeking a SPECIFIC David Sosa • Officer for second Mississippi department implicated in alleged torture, shooting and attempted sexual assault of two men • New York City buys $90,000 in submachine guns for officers at Rikers • Inglewood police officer arrested for narcotics trafficking • Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show • FBI hired same social media surveillance firm that falsely labeled Black Lives Matter organizers “threat actors”
• Idiot Republican gets thrown out of House Idiots Caucus for insulting another idiot Republican • Trump tells women’s group that Democrats want to take away their washers and dryers • Conservatives are falsely blaming a mass shooting on trans people, again • Trump-loving lawmaker faces legal trouble for sharing X-rated Hunter Biden images • Republicans are losing money because of Trump • DeSantis clings to a weird right-wing meme in chasing the misogynistic-sociopath vote • “He could stand on the front steps of the White House and commit murder and I’m with him,” says Trump supporter
🖯 MY BROWSER HISTORY 🖯• How the Obama administration helped kill the democratic uprising across the Middle East • The good, the bad, and the incredibly ugly in the court ruling regarding government contacts with social media • Republicans talk deficit reduction, but what they actually do — time after time after time — is raise it via corporate giveaways • For most people living in the United States, owning a car is a necessity, not a choice
• I’ve reported on gun violence in the US for more than a year and I just can’t get used to it
♫♬ AUDIO ♫• Beast of Burden — Bette Midler • Home of the Brave — Jody Miller • Joe’s Garage — Frank Zappa • Kind of Magic — Queen • Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat — Sparks
👁 VIDEO 👁• Peter Fernandez voices David Letterman, 1986 • Tom Hanks says he won’t appear on Letterman’s new CBS show • When not-Michael Jackson performed “Clean It” in a McDonald’s training video • Lunar globes • Mall City: A Cultural Adventure
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⚰️ THE DEAD ⚰️• Lewis Branscomb • Darren Drozdov • Edward Fredkin • ruomliG divaD • Carlos Alberto Montaner • Lilli Vincenz
7/7/2023Cranky Old Fart is annoyed and complains and very occasionally
offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that’s made me
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First, the fireworks
Boom.Boom, boom.Boom, a whistling sound, and boom again.Fuck the 4th of July, and doublefuck anyone who think it’s fun to play with explosives well past my bedtime. … [read more]
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Then, the soup
At 8-ish in the morning on the 5th of July, awakened by a leftover
fireworks boom de yada, I came out of my room to pee, just as my
flatmate Dean was coming out of the bathroom. … [read more]
