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How to Create a Reference Link on BindleSnitch

One of the our deficiencies on BindleSnithc is that we don’t have the same cut and paste functionality that Facebook has. That’s the function that allows you to copy a URL from an article and paste it into a Facebook post to display that link in your post.

There are good reasons for doing this. You want to attract attention to an important article that states your position as well or better than…

MAWA (Make Ariel White Again)

My wife, very aware of all things Disney, came home from a business trip and promptly told me about a big internet flap. Apparently, Disney is doing a live action version of The Little Mermaid. They’ve cast a young singer, Halle Bailey, as Ariel. Ms. Bailey is drop-dead gorgeous with a Grammy-nominated voice to match.

She often…

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. After all,

General Motors

Chevron

General Electric

Goldman Sacks

and

Exxon/Mobil

all weighed in, in public, about the Paris accords.

Here’s the problem:

They were all opposedto dropping out of the Accords. They all said this in public at the time that…

An incident with my stereo in college

Inspired by Jon Wolfman’s Blaupunkt story (though it wasn’t really his point)

  I’m a manufacturer’s representative for commercial audio equipment for a living. When I was in college, my father’s company mainly represented residential audio equipment, which is to say home stereo. This was before 5/1 home theater and before audio for video in general, so people cared about how good their systems…

What I wrote about

Like I assume some of you have, I went through old OurSalon posts to save a bunch of them. As I did, I filed them in categories. I used:

Personal, Music, Life Tales of J One sentence posts Race, Racism, other bigotry Politics & Democracy Economics and business Israel & Jewish Satire & Humor

Some posts fit into more than one category, so I just picked one.

I didn’t save everything and, with very…

Why income polarization is a problem

My very first post, published May 2010 on Open Salon

  Income polarization has become extreme in the US. The last thing I heard, probably apocryphal, is that the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 95% of the population. [It depends what’s being measured; we’re close by some standards and already there by others: seehttp://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html ] We have lower…