The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Well, we missed a week. The Curmudgeon was playing the part of the loving grandfather over the Christmas holiday. Of course it wasn’t a merry Christmas for 1.3 million families that had their unemployment insurance cut off by the far right
The stain of reality TV reached all across the country last week when the star of Duck Dynasty spoke what’s left of his mind on his beliefs about homosexuality in GQ. Half the straights and all the gays in the country
Even in the midst of the overbearing controversy over whether to allow a disaster like the XL Pipeline, the oil industry can’t keep their hands clean. On September 29tyh the Tesoro Pipeline fractured and dumped over 865,200 gallons of
American healthcare stinks so why aren’t the Republicans, who don’t want Obamacare, doing anything to help solve the problem? A New York Times editorial on 11/18 states firmly that we rank at or near the bottom of most healthcare categories
There was a train wreck last Sunday morning on Amtrack. Four people were killed. We have had auto accidents in this city with higher death tolls that didn’t make the Six O’clock News, but this accident, mainly because it was a
November 22nd, 1963 is the date on which America went from optimism to cynicism. It turned a generation that had rebuilt the world after WWII, an energetic, entrepreneurial wave of triumphant survivors of that planet wide horror,
The noise among the talking heads this week is all about how Obama screwed up with the implementation of the ACA, and that criticism is certainly valid but the comparisons to Bush , the deserter, and Katrina are just as
There has never been anything like the NSA’s omnivorous appetite for every item of information available on the planet and now we see that they are checking out porn sites to see if anyone they want to smear is using them. Joe
Like starving rats, the far right is gnawing at the President’s foreign policy, much as they have at Obamacare. Their favorite target is, of course, Benghazi. The only problem is that it wasn’t Obama’s disaster and anyone who has
It occurs to me that we have a hell of a nerve telling Iran that they have to abide by our nuclear rules when we have the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world. Think about it. The guy next door stands on