The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Three times this week, old friends have told me that despite all the facts presented by the Mueller Report they still favor Trump because, n their view, he has never been given a fair chance. One friend said, “The Democrats attacked
Well, the Mueller report is out and finally out of the hands of our scurrilous AG Bill Barr. According to all reports it says anything but what Barr and the administration would like us to think. It’s obvious that Mueller found
I’m watching Pete Buttigeig having a conversation about the subtle differences between socialism and capitalism and the ways they interact in our present society and I begin to wonder how that conversation would sound coming from our current president. And I couldn’t
Julian Assange was arrested, this week. British authorities made the pickup at the Ecuadorian Embassy where Assange has been hiding for seven years. It seems he was misbehaving so badly that even the Ecuadorians wanted him arrested. He will probably be
I was reading a couple of seriously right wing sites this week. Of course I read them. You have to read everything if you want to have some realistic idea of what’s going on in the world we inhabit. Bizarrely enough,
So Mueller published his report and it went right into the biased hands of Attorney General William Barr. Barr has now written a letter to congress explaining what he got out of the report. It’s a four-page letter synopsizing twenty-two months
Trump’s insane behavior keeps going from bad to worse, which drove everyone to ask the big question. Will the release of the Mueller report calm him down? Well the report has been released but so far has been read only by
So last week Trump addressed an accumulation of bigots and racists known as the CPAC conference and led by a jerk named Matt Schlapp. They laughed at references to John McCain, an American hero, a man who measured against any of them,
The silence is deafening. The biggest mouth in the world, the nasty hole that constantly bellows, tweets and blabbers about all manner of nonsense, seems to have nothing to say about a deranged Coast Guard officer who has plotted to kill all
There is no bigger enemy of the Constitution than Mitch McConnell and that alone makes him a traitor to the nation. McConnell as the majority leader of the Senate has repeatedly acted as a politician and not as an elected representative of