The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The Media has finally learned a very important lesson as seen when Martha Raddatz recently opened This Week with a shot of the four young, intelligent newswomen spread across the screen as that week’s commentators. It illustrated that networks are finally
Big discussion on reopening of schools this weekend. Everyone blames the teachers and that may indeed be the case but there are always other considerations, like making the actual buildings safe and the protection procedures that are used, even safer. Steve
For almost a year now, the United States has been racked by a disease that has spread through our ranks and killed over four hundred thousand Americans. To our disgrace we allowed ourselves to be led by a President who tried to
Donald Trump went on trial for his second impeachment this week. It sounds like a joke. How big a criminal do you have to be to have instigated two impeachments in only four years? Trump is the GOAT of sociopathic criminal presidents.
Donald Trump built his image and his presidency on social media. He figured out that even with the love of Rupert Murdoch’s twisted Fox organization he would never get the mainstream press to buy the bullshit he was spewing all over
Thought for the day one day before Biden is sworn in: “If Trump hadn’t been so stupid; he could have pulled it off.” That is really scary because there will be others, more intelligent, less ego driven and much better suited, who
Sorry that this blog is late. I had a piece prepared to publish on Wednesday but as I started watching the inauguration I realized that something entirely different was needed. The piece I had written was about those who had voted
In the last two decades, as a result of the Electoral College, the Presidency of the United States has twice gone to men, who did not receive a majority of the votes cast. Both times they were Republican and both times their
I’ve always been fascinated by the way everything that goes around comes around. The recording this week of Donald Trump attacking and threatening honest fellow Republicans as he is about to leave the White House made me think of an earlier
It’s been 208 years since our Capital building in Washington DC has been breeched. In 1812 it was a foreign enemy. This Wednesday January 6th 2021 it was a different kind of enemy. This time it was a seditious mob instructed,