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Month: January 2011

The BCS Blows it Again

Posted on January 30, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Well, here we are again, the end of a college football season and once more no legitimate champion. No, you say, Auburn beat Oregon in the battle of the undefeated.   That produced a champion. Oh yeah, what about the other undefeated team,

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Posted in Sports

Wither Goest Afghanistan?

Posted on January 24, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

We are now ten years into a war in Afghanistan that by any definition of victory is unwinnable. So what are we doing there and how do we get out? Bush, who started the war, was going to kill Osama bin Laden.

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Posted in Politics Tagged Karzai, Pakistan

How Strange is Julian?

Posted on January 20, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Now that the hue and cry over WikiLeaks has subsided somewhat it’s time to take a look at what was actually done, how it was received and where it all stands in the spectrum of journalistic history. The initial reaction to the

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Posted in Social Commentary Tagged hacking, Julien Assange

Murder & Responsibility

Posted on January 10, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Murder in Tuscon I was just finishing up a new blog on the responsibilities of freedom this morning when the networks were flooded by the news of US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and a number of others attending a meeting in a Tuscon

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Posted in Social Commentary Tagged Gabrielle Cliffords, responsibility

What’s Wrong With Israel?

Posted on January 7, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Some of you may have gotten this but a number of subscribers called in to let me know that hey didn’t so I am sending it out again. Sorry. This week the right wing majority in Israel decided that they weren’t going

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Posted in Miscellaneous

What’s Wrong With Israel?

Posted on January 4, 2011 by The Urban Curmudgeon

A couple of weeks ago the right wing majority in Israel decided that they weren’t going to give up building settlements and thereby torpedoed Obama’s peace attempt making our President and our country look like suckers for trying to help them. What’s

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Posted in Miscellaneous Tagged Israel, religious right, settlements

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