The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
It really grinds my ass that the Republican leaders are such effective liars, and that the American public is so ill informed and so gullible that they immediately buy any bullshit the GOP feeds them. This is particularly true in economic
Adam Schiff speaks about the fragility of our democracy, but he’s making a philosophic point. The reality is that democracy is fragile because it can’t protect itself and our government can’t seem to get anything done. Every day there is a plethora
Trying to bring this country together may seem like a lost cause, but it’s never too late to do the right thing. The problem with making that work is the politicians that run this country and the media that reports what is
So, the latest leak in what might be the leakiest government in the world has pro-choice demonstrators out on the streets screaming for the heads of our latest Supreme Court. How the vote will go is no longer the question. Mitch McConnell
Elon Musk has just purchased Twitter among cries for freedom of speech and demands that Trump be reinstated after he was kicked off for lying about the elections. What we really need is an outfit like Twitter that presents proponents of both
We all know Kevin McCarthy has repeatedly denied reality in his approach to his job, to Donald Trump and to Jan. 6th. And now he wants us to believe that Thomas Edison never existed, and electricity has never progressed past the realm
Last week, as the nation celebrated the appointment of the first black woman onto our Supreme Court, many of our elected officials couldn’t manage to generate enough manners to honor the occasion or at least keep their mouths shut. No, she
As the Russians retreat from the Ukrainian towns that they briefly occupied, they are stealing everything that isn’t nailed down. Why has this glorious army, that has turned out to be somewhat less functional than that of Afghanistan, turned into a brigade
Of all the chaos of this week, and of this volatile era, what stands out to this writer as the living example of what is driving all acceptable moral standards to disappear, are Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his comic book
Putin’s war continues but the world hasn’t stopped. The Russian leader’s intimations about the use of nuclear brings us back to Iran and the still dangling treaty that Trump fucked up. Yeah, it’s still out there promising to be an even bigger