The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Donald Trump addressed the UN this week and despite the fact that many pundits left the speech with their hair on fire the message really wasn’t much different than what most Presidents might have said. Yes, he used brash language and
The Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin defined greed and stupidity when he asked the government for a jet to take him and his bride to Europe for their honeymoon. This, right after he had gotten in hot water because he grabbed
After failing on everything they tried in the first six months of the Trump administration, the Republicans who have all the power in this government are now looking at tax reform. Tax reform? How the hell do they ever expect to get
This blog has been accused of spending a lot of time attacking industry and big business. Okay! Guilty! But there’s a very good reason for that. You don’t even have to go to big tobacco, oil, coal, gas, pharma or any of
Harvey has laid waste to South East Texas and now the focus has to be the long, expensive and enervating process of rebuilding the cities and the lives there. If one thing has stood out amid the devastation it is the heroism
After the mess in Charlottesville recently all the pundits seem to agree that Trump is loath to attack the bigots and white supremacists because they are a significant part of his base. Maybe they are, but that’s not the real reason. The
Everyone knows the saying It takes a village, and it does, but what they don’t realize is that sometimes it takes a catastrophe to get that village up off its ass and functioning. As they always do in this country disasters bring
Donald Trump went out in front of the American public the other night and made the speech he had to eventually make. This was something of a revelation. He spent an awful lot of time justifiably praising our armed forces, and while
Trump the bigot stated, it is “so foolish” to be taking down monuments of confederates in this country. He’s wrong about that as well as about his equivocation of Lee and Washington but it goes further than that. Article 3 of the
A recent study of fossil fuel subsidies, published in the journal, World Development, has shown that industries in that sphere now benefit by over $5 trillion per year in subsidies. That doesn’t even take into account the cost of damages to the