Is “Michael Snyder” any relation to “Mitch Snyder” of “homeless advocacy” notoriety?
Yes! The Mitch Snyder whose hunger strike in 1990 was defeated by a bunch of nuns who refused to be shook down by his homeless posse. The nuns said that when Snyder realized he’d lost, “a leaner but wiser Mitch arose, took up his pallet, and headed off to Burger King”.
I had started listening to Rush Limbaugh that year, and Snyder’s antics kept Rush in the tall clover for weeks on end. He made a star of Clarence “Frogman” Henry of “Ain’t Got No Home” fame.
Snyder hanged himself in 1999. Gone and unmissed.