The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
When I was a young person there was a great deal of discussion about how children arrived at the ability to process logical thought at about the age of seven. It was called the age of reason because supposedly at or about
The Republicans started out the new session of congress by once again proving that they know a hell of a lot about winning elections but damned little about governing. The new session began with a reading of the Constitution. Was that to
The O’Reilly Fracture Obama made a mistake by going on Bill O’Reilly’s show. O’Reilly is a provocateur not a journalist. Not only is O’Reilly pitifully biased, he’s also a rude and disrespectful egomaniac. As such he ignores his job as an interviewer,
Social Security Isn’t the Answer Mitch McConnell, ® Kentucky was on the tube this weekend, once again plying the big lie. I really don’t see why almost every Republican congressman has to be the punch line of “How do you know when
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.