Wednesday Walk Around the Web – 08/16/2017

Welcome to the Wednesday Walk Around the Web, where we weave & wind through weblinks weekly. Hopefully you will find the links on offer amusing, interesting, or, occasionally, profound. Views expressed in the Wednesday Walk do not necessarily reflect those of anyone but the writer.

• First, obviously, RIP Heather Heyer, murdered by a white supremacist (and domestic abuser, natch) for counter-protesting the big Nazi/Klan/Republican Base riot last weekend. (More on Heyer.)
• I trust I don’t need to pull receipts for the white supremacy of those assembled, with their various forms of racist paraphernalia and catchy slogans about “white lives matter,” “fucking Jew-lovers,” and the ones about the F-word (the one I don’t like). Meanwhile, tiki torches and Airbnb do a better job of disassociating from Nazis than the US executive branch. It’s easy to focus on that at the expense of the people who make sympathetic noises while enabling white-aupremacist agendas, of course; the rot goes all the way down, and spreads all around.
• If there’s any positive takeaway, at least some more people can be inspired to tear down the monuments to Treason in Defense of Slavery littered throughout the US.
• Back to regular Walkin’: If this isn’t the plot of the next Thor movie, I’m boycotting Marvel. You can instantly picture the feast scene.
• I’m not usually one to buy into conspiracy theories, but I must say that I finally found one that completely makes sense.
• Fleas in Arizona are testing positive for the damned plague, because that’s all we need now.
• This Month in History: In August 2004, the Dave Matthews Band dumped 800 pounds of excrement directly onto Chicago boat passengers lazily trekking down the river.
• Challenge of the Day: Make a furby out of items from around your house. Share yours in the comments! (If you still have a furby in your house…that’s cheating.)
• Baked beans have a way of just getting everywhere.
• If this hundred-year-old fruitcake is “almost” edible, maybe I shouldn’t have thrown out that fruitcake a friend got me just ten years ago.
• There remains one lone bastion of The Old Days, one shining knight serving as a light in the wilderness. The Last Blockbuster remains for all of us.
• It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 15 years since Warren Zevon died.
• Friend of the Walk Steve Wille sends word of some delightful food crime, as 20 tons of sweets were pilfered in Germany.
• I genuinely feel sorry for people who rule out whole kinds of sex and assign them to their religious adversaries. Oh honey. Explore yourself.