#bindlesnitch

This will be short and sweet. I am beginning to add my collected poetry to the website as part of an experiment I am working on. In the process, I have added copy protection to the site.  This means that you cannot right-click on an image or a section of text and copy it to the clipboard. However, anyone who is using the snippet tool can still snip anything they want to take…but it will be a…

Which posts would you save?

Things are quiet on the site right now. The most notable thing here lately was jpHart’s unbelievable Haiku comment on RobertBJames’ blog. It’s recent in the comment stream. So I’m looking at my old posts wondering which ones I’d save. Most I wouldn’t. It was my kid’s yorzeit? I didn’t say anything worth saving this time. Jan. 6 was a big deal? Yeah, we know that, and I wrote it so soon afterward…

And Now A Few Words from Your Host….

I want to address you as the co-founder…wait…

I am not even completely sure about what my title is. Sure enough, I own this website together with my partner  Robert Pannier, but I don’t recall whether I am supposedly the editor in chief or the managing editor.  Owner sounds too crass. Executive director sounds too pretentious.

So, let’s just say that, as the co-founder of BindleSnitch, I would…

As to Ron Powell’s Post About BindleSnitch

This is in response to Ron’s post (immediately below; my thoughts follow). 

“Re conversational comment threads:

Please streamline or simplify the “comment” thread or comment stream in such a manner as to ensure the continuity of the sequence of comments and replies.

Too often, a ‘reply’ will precede the ‘comment’ that is being addressed…

The comments and replies should read like a conversation or…

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…

Ain’t She “Special!

After Ivanka “I design purses!” Trump’s triumphant appearance at the G20 meeting in Japan (as reported by  johnnyrobish https://bindlesnitch.com/ivanka-attended-president-trumps-meeting-with-kim-jong-un/ ) she has apparently decided to branch out to other venues…

        I guess she is also hanging out with some of her favorite music peeps, as well…

Regulation is good for business

originally published on Open Salon on May 29, 2010

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…

Factoid:NYC borough populations compared to other cities

If we broke up NYC into five cities (Brooklyn was originally a separate city), the rankings would look like this (based on estimates):

Los Angeles.         4,057,841.         http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/

Chicago.               2,679,044

Brooklyn.             2,582,830.        https://www.citypopulation.de/php/usa-newyorkcity.php  For boroughs

Houston               2,359,480