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April Odds & Ends (No Fooling!)

Posted on April 1, 2026 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Donald Trump is all bent out of shape by the refusal of many of our allies to jump in and help us in the war with Iran. Only an idiot child would be upset by these positions, but Trump is the most

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Dumb Is as Dumb Does

Posted on December 5, 2025 by The Urban Curmudgeon

AI has arrived. Not coming, it’s already here, and that means we’re already behind in regulating it. Good discussion on that process on Stephanie Ruhle’s show last weekend. It’s the same problem the internet was when it hit the stage. We all

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Posted in New York City, Politics Tagged AI, Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Zohran Mamdani1 Comment on Dumb Is as Dumb Does

Who Will Run NYC?

Posted on November 11, 2025November 11, 2025 by The Urban Curmudgeon

And Other Notes From the Past Couple Weeks Donald Trump is really pitching for that Nobel Peace Prize. This month, he sanctioned Russia’s two top revenue-producing oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil. Both are blocked from doing business with any American company, and

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Posted in Foreign, New York City, Politics Tagged Gaza, John Bolton, Katie Britt, Mamdani, Nobel Prize, Trump, Vance

October Odds & Ends

Posted on October 16, 2025 by The Urban Curmudgeon

So, Donald Trump looked at the calendar last month and panicked. The statute of limitations was running out on one of his least favorite people, James Comey. But the chief prosecutor didn’t want to bring charges because he recognized the case Trump

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Posted in New York City, Politics Tagged Donald Trump, Gaza, Hegseth, Marco Rubio, NYC Real Estate, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, Trump

Trump, Crime, and the National Guard

Posted on September 2, 2025 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Marco Rubio, the Donald’s Secretary of State, was all over the tube last Sunday trying to logically explain what is happening in the peace talks, but forever frustrated by Trump’s affinity for the big lie. Trump has lied so definitively over his

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Posted in New York City, Politics Tagged Marco Rubio, National Guard, Trump

Regime Change?

Posted on July 26, 2025 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Lindsey Graham was recently on Meet the Press lauding the president for his possibly successful attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. He worked so hard, I began to wonder how far he’d really go for a couple of hours of free greens fees.

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Posted in Foreign, New York City, Politics Tagged Donald Trump, Iran, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Trump, Zohran Mamdani

Just a Friendly Bombing

Posted on July 5, 2025 by The Urban Curmudgeon

Lindsey Graham was recently on Meet the Press, lauding the president for his possibly successful attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. He worked so hard, I began to wonder how far he’d really go for a couple of hours of free greens fees.

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Posted in Foreign, New York City, Politics Tagged Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Iran, Mamdani, Marco Rubio, Rubio, Trump1 Comment on Just a Friendly Bombing

Brutal Traffic

Posted on January 14, 2025 by The Urban Curmudgeon

So, yeah, I couldn’t go even a month without having to air a complaint. This time it’s “congestion pricing.” It isn’t that I’m against lowering the traffic volume in midtown and below, it’s just that the means they’ve devised to do it

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Posted in New York City, Politics Tagged Congestion Pricing, New York City, Scott Galloway1 Comment on Brutal Traffic

NYC-The Big Jam II

Posted on December 25, 2021 by The Urban Curmudgeon

    So last time we talked about all the problems with Traffic & Transportation but we never got around to what to do about them. Now we’re going to face that problem. We may not solve it, or even any part

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NYC-The Big Jam

Posted on December 20, 2021 by The Urban Curmudgeon

The passing and signing of the Infrastructure bill sent spasms of greed and delight flashing across the country. Urban planners and the contractors that erect their dreams are aflutter with delight over the prospects ahead. And in New York politicians are girding

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