The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Today, all over this country and across the world, children who wish to experience a complete life called BULLSHIT on the lies of the NRA and the weapons industry in general. There will be all sorts of numbers thrown around but the
This country and every country in the international realm needs a President whose word means something. Nations need to be able point to treaties honored and promises kept and their President’s word has to be looked up to as something that other
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
In the years since he disgraced himself in the Tawana Brawley mess, I have come to appreciate the activism of Al Sharpton but he returned to bullshit noise recently with his rant about black actors and how they were included in this
Watched an interview with Marco Rubio a while back. It’s fascinating. Rubio, as long as he’s not being interviewed in a political context, is a very smart guy with some very valid opinions on many international matters. Unfortunately, as soon as the
Things are really getting bad for Trump. He recently begged the Republican leaders to just shut up and let him do it all by himself. Yeah, that’s a good idea. Paul Ryan, while desperately trying to hold onto the Party, is
When given a moment to explain why he has stumbled so clumsily around the Trump problem he faces in this election, Paul Ryan talks of inclusiveness, a subject, about which his party knows nothing. The GOP is all about the exclusive few
I don’t know about you but I have come to hate flying. A century or so ago, when I was a kid, I flew with my family to many foreign lands and a good deal of this one. It was always
The President went to Cuba. The opponents of his trip, mostly Batisteros from the Florida Cuban community and Right Wing fanatics, still carry on about the communist threat to our country and love to whine about human rights violations by the
It seems unbelievable that Donald Trump was considered to have done okay in the latest series of debates. I don’t know what the pundits were watching. The debates I saw exposed Trump as a loud-mouthed bully who had no facts on