The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, was on Face the Nation last week selling us Artificial Intelligence. He paints a beautiful picture, but none of the problems are in that picture. Sure, using AI will certainly help us do more things in less
Republicans want to start winning again, but way too many of them don’t want to face reality; the one where Donald Trump is a dishonest sociopath who has never met a lie he wouldn’t embrace if he thought it would help him
Governor DeSantis of Florida has completely lost his mind. This week he sent storm troopers to raid apartment houses in Florida, arresting anyone who didn’t have finalized work papers or green cards. This is ridiculous. These were all working people who were
Watched the important part of the Brit Coronation on Spectrum and it all gave me a very strange feeling. Here we sat on this day in 2023, drowning in modern technology, watching a ceremony that’s thousands of miles away; a ceremony that
Another Trump would-be bimbo/terrorist, showed up in the news last week. Her name is Miki Larson-Olson, and she was convicted of defying police orders on the capital grounds on 1/6. Of course, when Trump found out he embraced her for the cameras.
When the discussion turns to abortion, the big thing on the GOP side is whether it’s a state or a federal issue. That’s what they’re all fighting about, now. But that’s a ridiculous argument. The Democrats, knowing it’s ridiculous, are rooting for
This kid who seems to have broken down our entire security system so he can impress a bunch of gamers is exactly what’s wrong with our younger generation. Yes, I’m old, I wouldn’t be writing this if I wasn’t. He didn’t, do
The difference between the legislatures we want and the legislatures we have was blatantly illustrated this week by the State of Tennessee as a majority of aging GOP legislators, whose existence is dependent on the serious application of gerrymandering, kicked out two
One of Trump’s prepaid lawyers, Joe Tacopina made the exact same speech on Sunday that I would have made if I wanted to prove exactly the opposite point about all the Trump nonsense. The biggest point being avoided by Mr. Tacopina is
John Kasich was a guest on Velshi this week. He talks a good game and is probably my favorite Republican, but he doesn’t follow through as a candidate. He’s a little too civilized for today’s kill or be killed political scene. The