The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The big debate when we finally get over the non-event of Ukraine is about the minimum wage. The basic existing labor situation in this country is that productivity has risen amazingly in the last two decades but salaries haven’t.
I know this is about money and I’m never surprised at greed or dishonesty when it comes to people trying to make more than they need, but the latest tactics by the Koch’s and other fossil fuel industry vultures
Two stories on the front page of today’s, NY Times illustrate eloquently how false impressions can drive a narrative. One story comes out of the American west where mounted horsemen wearing chaps and cowboy hats backed by armed militia members
This week gave us a real good view of what the war on terror looks like and how well our bloated Homeland Security forces function when they are confronted by other then unarmed kids with posters. This is the
With all the noise about the Ukraine, the Korean ferry and a mysteriously disappeared airplane, the media is finding it damned hard to find space for insignificant stuff like people out of work or working for too low wages,
Can we end this stupid fight? For five years the GOP refused to admit the need for affordable, universal health care, some because they were too dumb to understand its necessity, some because they were too callous to admit the
John Hayward, who bills himself as “Powerful Conservative Voice” on his rightwing blog Human Events has taken off on the ACA with a blistering attack, filled with Conservative fact and numbers. Mr. Hayward, who is the print version of Rush
The Ukrainian thing is an awful mess. There is really nothing effective that we can do about it and there probably shouldn’t be, we have no dog in this fight, but that never stopped a member of the GOP from
The standoff between Russia and the rest of the world over Crimea and the Ukraine isn’t gung anywhere. The Republicans in this country who are using it to attack Obama are no better than Putin. The reality is that there are
A very important and probably for the first time, significant discussion broke out on This Week… It was truly stimulating because for the first time in memory some real strategic, as opposed to political, questions were asked and although few were answered,