Cranky Old Man #83

Canada’s Prince Andrew High School is looking for a new name that “upholds our values as a safe and inclusive” space.

Cranky Old Man #82 

Driving home after breakfast at the diner a few days ago, I saw dozens of people, usually in clumps of 4-5, wearing all red.

Cranky Old Man #81

Republicans sing praises of Martin Luther King while blocking civil rights

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Invasion of the hippies at Woodstock, 1969

A handful of local grouches proposed forcibly shaving the heads of longhairs and calling on the New York State governor to declare Woodstock a disaster area so that soldiers could be called in to deal with the hair heads.

Cranky Old Man #80

Boris Johnson pulls the plug on BBC

This would eviscerate BBC’s funding, and either take BBC off the air or make it become a commercial enterprise.I’m

My favorite movie this week was The Andromeda Strain, and my hot tip would be The Trick, but that one’s non-fiction about the end of the world, so it’s slightly sad. … [read more]

Cranky Old Man #79

Major good news, for a few:
Navient lawsuit settled; $1.7 billion in student loan debt cancelled

The loan servicing giant Navient [formerly Sallie Mae] has agreed to cancel $1.7 billion in student loan debts owed by roughly 66,000 borrowers, as part of a settlement announced Thursday with 39 state attorneys general. … [read more]

Cranky Old Man #78

Italian police raided a tiny news site run on a Facebook page, and the raid made the site much more famous and successful. 

Cranky Old Man #77

Hospitalizations for COVID are at all-pandemic highs, and yet, for most of America it’s business as usual, maybe with masks on.

I don’t know what the solution is, but for starters I’d support ① a lockdown for unvaccinated adults — no admittance to stores, restaurants, or anyplace indoors where the public gathers — and ② tripling all taxes on any adult who’s unvaccinated.

Carnival of Souls (1962)
— BIG YES —

Even the opening credits are askew in this extreme low-budget black-and-white sort-of horror movie.