The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
This is the first time I have done this; that is, completely excerpted a piece that someone else has written but I thought that this was so important that I was obligated to show it in its entirety. I don’t always agree
Throw out government is the war cry of people too stupid to realize that they need government and too lazy to figure out a way to make it work. We have an election coming up. What are we going to do about
What’s Going On Here? This is a three part series on where we are as a country, where we want to be as individuals, where we should be as both, how we think we can achieve both and how that will be
Healthcare: Will it work? The jury’s still out and will be for quite some time. What we do know is that what we had wasn’t working. Insurance companies were dropping sick people causing the government to pick up their coverage or forcing
I saw a documentary last weekend on TV in which Ben Stein tries fruitlessly to make a case for Intelligent Design. Intelligent Design for those of you who have been on another planet looking for the origin of life or a good
I had hoped that this would be over by now but it looks like it’s going to be with us for a while so I feel obligated to expand what I said the other day. Feisal Abdul Rauf has an absolute right
Glen Beck had a great opportunity last weekend and he blew it. Sure he stood up in front of a couple of hundred thousand of is closest friends and made an absolutely self aggrandizing speech but because of the extensive media coverage
The Republicans are already bragging about how they will take back the house and how that will allow them to have hearings on everybody and everything that the Democrats have touched. That would be a good thing if the object were to
I just don’t get these intrusive bigots who have nothing to do but go around trying to keep people from getting married. Acquire a life! What difference does it make if the couple is of the same or different sexes? They love
So let’s talk about war. It’s a common word, found around the house. People have been at war ever since there were people. Sometimes it was just a rock fight, sometimes a full-scale nuclear barbacue. Looking at the human races history of