The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
All the noise being made in Iowa about the Caucasus, the Straw poll and pig fries reminds me of someone rattling three marbles in an empty bucket. Iowa, along with its fellow noisemakers New Hampshire and South Carolina, ultimately mean nothing in
There was a discussion, recently, of Carly Fiorina and her place is in the Republican election plans for 2016. It was intelligently pointed out, by a GOP spokesman, that she is a huge improvement over Michele Bachman, who was the female attack
Everybody’s going crazy over the TPP. It’s all over the news with Obama calling Elizabeth Warren wrong, and holding out against everyone who thinks that we need to move slowly or not at all. Democrats are fighting the President over what’s in
The discussion about the war in the Middle East goes on and on and on. Our right wing continues to push for boots on the ground, wanting to sacrifice more American kids so a bunch of religious fanatics can continue their endless
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, two potential GOP candidates for president, both without any platform on which to run, have decided that since they can’t come up with any kind of positive plan fore their presidency, they would come up with,
The big noise from Texas is actually about a Bigoted Bimbo from Broadway and how she conned her dumb as dirt followers from the Lone Star State into having a cartoon contest where artists from that woebegone state, i.e. anyone who can
I’m a big sports fan, especially football but the huge noise that was made a few months back and is now being renewed over the off field and on field behavior of professional football players has gotten so blown out of
The FBI has put out a warning that hundreds of ISIS followers are loose in the land and are getting ready to commit horrendous atrocities all across the country. That may be, but they’ll never catch up to our own gun
There’s a lot of noise being made over an extremist threat to our malls. Is this a real threat? Probably, but not on any kind of scale like 911 or like the threat that the terrorists present to the nations of
It’s a hot time for politics in the Republican party. Once they crapped out in Vegas, all the money grubbers headed over to Iowa, spewing their Christian venom, throwing around accusations that bore little or no truth and generally playing clown to