The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Amidst all the noise surrounding the mishandling of North Korea, Donald Trump has managed to get another swipe in at Iran and the treaty Obama negotiated with them. This writer really can’t understand why our presidents love to attack Iran. Sure their
It’s pretty much impossible to do everything wrong. Even the greatest f***ups in history got something right once in a while but right now Donald Trump is trying to put the lie to that statement, big time! Now there’s a good
The Dow hit 22,000 yesterday. So what? Sure it means that people with some savings or a significant amount of money are doing very well but what about the rest of the country? What about all those people who don’t have savings
Donald Trump’s litany of failure, achieved in only six months, bodes ill for the rest of his term in office. But forget six months. Just look at Trump’s failures in the last 36 hours! He started out by blaming the three Republican
There is a twenty something year-old girl in this country who is about to go to jail for leaking the fact that the Russians hacked into county clerks computers in an attempt to alter the vote count in the last election. We
Is anyone surprised about Trump appointing an obvious ass kisser to the job of Communications Director? I have never seen anyone so comfortable having his nose wedged securely between the cheeks of a fat criminal as Anthony Scaramucci appeared at his opening
We all knew that Rick Perry our Secretary of Energy was dumb as a post, but this week he proved it. This moron decided that he was smart enough to explain supply and demand to those in the nation that didn’t
This blog has pretty much stayed away from the Russian hacking and the Trump group collusion story because it still has so very far to go before any conclusion becomes reality. There will be thousands of pundit opinions and more thousands of
The new healthcare bill really has nothing to do with healthcare. It’s a tax bill aimed at saving money for the already rich. The Republicans can lie about it until their teeth fall out and the Democrats can blunder around lost in
So it turns out that Obama knew about the Russian involvement in our elections during the summer of 2016. He considered it, looked at various plans to punish the Russians and finally did nothing. I might have been because he didn’t want