BindleSnitch News Digest for August 16, 2022
Short takes with editorial comments about stories in today's "paper of record."
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And Now A Few Words from the ‘Editors’
I have recently been accused of running a crooked game here by not publishing articles that aren't sufficiently leftish for my tastes. This is rather funny, because I don't publish anything on BindleSnitch myself
Back To Our Previous Home Page Design
Sometimes good ideas turn out to be not so good. We're reverting to the previous home page design with the smaller images, and dropping a few other news items for members only.
MAWA (Make Ariel White Again)
It’s not just the virulent racism, masquerading as usual as something else, in this case some sort of concern for authenticity. Of an animated character. The arguments here go from ridiculous to clinically insane.
Who did Trump pull out of the Paris Accords for?
When Trump pulled out of the Paris Accords, I assumed he did it to take limits off of American corporations. I guess that’s a logical assumption.
The last remaining wooden bridge in Michigan
What it took to save an old wooden bridge from destruction and how LIFE happens in and around that bridge.
An incident with my stereo in college
I had a clock radio at the time. I couldn’t figure out how to rig up my stereo system to wake me up, so I had an idea: take an earphone, the kind we used to use with transistor radios, cut off the earphone itself, strip the wires, plug the plug into the earphone output on the clock radio (they had them) and feed the stripped wires into the back of one of the Altecs. I tried it and I got pleasant sound out of the clock radio, way, way better than I was getting out of the 1 ½” speaker inside the clock radio.
What I wrote about
What did you find when/if you saved your old posts? Did anything surprise you?
koshersalaami
I’m strong enough to say “No” to Democrats
You'd never know they are mixed race and treaty rights apply to them by looking.
Why income polarization is a problem
Someone comes to a Chamber meeting and announces that you all have a choice: Either one person is going to move to town who makes a billion dollars a year or ten thousand people are going to move to town who make $50,000 apiece.
Unless you're in the business of selling yachts, mansions, or Rolls Royces, you're not opting for the billionaire.
koshersalaami
FAREWELL OS!
We are making some updates to the site. We'll be back soon, thanks for your patience.
Above the Law
Equal justice under law is a phrase engraved on the front of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. It is also a societal ideal that has influenced the American legal system.
Single Sentence Sunday: Playing the race card
Playing the Race Card is one of those expressions like Class Warfare that is all about a dominant population telling a dominanted population to shut up and accept oppression.
Koshersalaami
A Question About The Democratic Narrative
"Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
----LBJ
Regulation is good for business
A lot of economists and business people will tell you that regulation is the enemy of business, that a free market left alone functions optimally and that government invariably screws it up - the more regulation, the worse. According to this model, the private sector is inherently efficient while government is inherently inefficient. In an awful lot of circles, this is dogma, accepted as truth by definition.
It is also complete crap.
koshersalaami
Close Encounters of the Racist Kind
And when they do come, treat them like you treat black people and other people of color...
The fantastic view from a Hospital Parking Garageee
Sometimes the view is worth the drive and the reason for the drive becomes much less important than it was when you started.
Factoid:NYC borough populations compared to other cities
“The remaining borough, Staten Island, would show up as #42 on the actual city list if it were broken out....greater than: Minneapolis, New Orleans, Tampa, Cleveland, Honolulu, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Orlando.”
koshersalaami
I get hired for a recording session
By: koshersalaami I’ve been doing some local playing and a guy I’ve done some playing with told me about a local recording studio where he does a lot of work. He’s mainly a guitar player/bass player but he’s been playing keyboard where necessary, but he’s no keyboard player
Would the Real Beethoven Please Stand Up
My first post about Beethoven was on the OS platform. It had been there since September of 2009. Here's the title: "WasBeethoven Black? Was His African Heritage Whitewashed?
OPEN CALL FOR ALL SALONERS: UPDATE 1
This article describes some of the work being done to create a safe harbor for contributors who are coming from Our Salon, but it contains useful information for anyone who is interested in joining BindleSnitch
Welcome Home Again
Once again, the Survivors from Open Salon are being thrown back out into the wilderness again. Moving yet again raises the question of where to move to. There are a couple of pages on Facebook, such as Orphans of Open Salon, that have tried to pick up the slack
Why Climate Change Arguments Won’t Change the Climate
We are living through a period in which we are seeing the collapse of the world order that we were born and raised in and watching as it is replaced by an alien socio-economic and political system that we don't even recognize any more. Nowhere is the discrepancy between the collective will and the political obstructions to the collective will more obvious than
Big Brother Wants Your Help to Track Down Pedophiles
It's no secret to anyone that we are all under constant surveillance. London is probably the most surveilled city in the world, with security cameras focused on just about every public place in the city, but most cities are now gridlocked with intersecting security cameras.
The Underestimation of Donald Trump
We are being lulled into believing that Donald Trump is a clown, an egotistical, self-centered, narcissistic bully, an ignoramus.
Trump may be some of those things, but he isn't neither stupid nor ignorant.
Holocaust Remembrance: In the Rocket’s Red Glare
Today, as Jews around the world commemorated the Day of Remembrance for the victims and the survivors of the Holocaust, Yom HaShoah, political figures are struggling to cope with nuclear armament issues putting Holocaust observances in the shadow of the rocket's red glare.
BindleSnitch Development Notes
This post is designed to provide a running commentary about the changes that are being made to the website and to open up a channel for feedback and discussion about the website itself.