The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Elon Musk has just purchased Twitter among cries for freedom of speech and demands that Trump be reinstated after he was kicked off for lying about the elections. What we really need is an outfit like Twitter that presents proponents of both
We all know Kevin McCarthy has repeatedly denied reality in his approach to his job, to Donald Trump and to Jan. 6th. And now he wants us to believe that Thomas Edison never existed, and electricity has never progressed past the realm
Last week, as the nation celebrated the appointment of the first black woman onto our Supreme Court, many of our elected officials couldn’t manage to generate enough manners to honor the occasion or at least keep their mouths shut. No, she
As the Russians retreat from the Ukrainian towns that they briefly occupied, they are stealing everything that isn’t nailed down. Why has this glorious army, that has turned out to be somewhat less functional than that of Afghanistan, turned into a brigade
Of all the chaos of this week, and of this volatile era, what stands out to this writer as the living example of what is driving all acceptable moral standards to disappear, are Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his comic book
Putin’s war continues but the world hasn’t stopped. The Russian leader’s intimations about the use of nuclear brings us back to Iran and the still dangling treaty that Trump fucked up. Yeah, it’s still out there promising to be an even bigger
Joe Biden is busy announcing that we are shutting off the Russian gas spigot and as a result the cost of gas will be even higher than it is now and we can all wonder why? Why the hell is giving the
***** I watched a movie called Licorice Pizza last night and then today I found out it won best picture along with a couple of other awards from the National Board of Review. I don’t know what the National Board normally reviews
Putin’s War continues and while we have not agreed to a no-fly zone over Ukraine we know we must increase our supply of planes that will allow the Ukrainians to fight for themselves. Just as important, maybe even more so, is to
So Putin pulled the dumbest move of his career, invading Ukraine and bringing about the deadliest European military action since WWII. All the parallels of the beginning of that awful catastrophe are in evidence except one. When Hitler raced