The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Let’s hear it for homeland security. The brave lads and lassies who spend their every waking hour fighting to protect us from the evil forces of Godless non-Christianity, have triumphed again. This time it was a terrorist invasion by a
It looks more and more that all us suckers who voted for Barak Obama because we thought, among other things, that he was truly dedicated to an environmental policy that would help reverse the disastrous climate policies of previous administrations. It
Rep Mike McCall,( R )Texas stated recently. on national TV, that Ed Snowden is a traitor working for a foreign power. Of course he couldn’t name the foreign power or show any proof that Snowden was doing anything except what he
The GOP has all the Evangelicals out praying their butts off that the ACA fails or at least looks bad long enough for them to make it the primary item in the 2014 election but that’s not really what’s important at
Kristen Gillibrand is now hearing noise about running for President. Ms Gillibrand is presidentially attractive, intelligent and a clever speaker but she just doesn’t have the gravitas to make this run now. I’ve seen her in two instances get her
A really important question was being debated on TV last Sunday. Has the president lost the American people and will he recover from this very bad year. Of course Bill Kristol and the Right were loaded for bear, championing the
Michael Hayden is one very smart cookie. He makes the best defense of the security establishments egregious invasions of American privacy imaginable but even Hayden can’t make me believe that NSA isn’t more interested in power than they are in security.
There was big news last week about a bunch of archeologists digging up some old bones in Europe that seem to have changed the known history of how man has developed. Actually this shouldn’t be big news at all because it
I don’t know if you’ve noticed lately but there is a lot of weird stuff happening in the world and a great deal of it is coming from the propagators of religion and the religious right. But it’s not just
Being as it’s New Years Day, and all the bowl action is taking up most of the viewing space on the tube, I thought that this was an apt subject to explore. There’s been a lot of noise made lately about