The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The Queen is dead. Long live the King! The question remains; what kind of King will Bonnie Prince Charley be? I, for one hope he will be more involved in international politics. We all know he has been a climate advocate and
The Biden speech just before Labor Day had everybody’s pants on fire. Has he given up on unity? His attack on Trump, and specifically his MAGA followers, looked like he might have, but that doesn’t consider the way Biden managed to get
Jeanette Sadek Kahn, former head of the NYC DOT, quite possibly the least functional government agency in the modern history of NYC was interviewed by Fareed Zacharia this weekend and she illustrated plainly why NYC traffic has been a disaster for decades.
Trump and the military! Did he really see them as his personal army? Did he get the point when General Sava told him that Hitler’s generals tried to kill him three times? It’s hard to believe that he did considering his
Pharma.org is a despicable bunch of greedy scumbags, running ads on TV, threatening to cut research and development on new drugs if congress passes the Inflation Reduction Bill, which gives Medicare the right to negotiate prices for drugs. Well, fuck them,
There’s been a lot of the noise made about it’s development, but is green technology up to replacing all the energy being produced by fossil fuel? The answer, at least for the time being, is a resounding no. What we do
The Democratic Party’s strategy of backing weak Trump nominees in the GOP primaries is cynical, disingenuous and downright stupid. How can any morally functional human being justify spending money on a process that endangers the democracy by helping Trumpian nuts along the
Biden made the necessary trip to Saudi Arabia last week, even as on the home-front Joe Manchin stabbed him and all Americans in the back by announcing he would not support the worlds ecology but would back the rich getting richer.
Right now, it looks like the Democrats and Joe Biden have every issue in the political “Hope Chest” available to them for the Mid-Term Election; every item but one. That one item is inflation. More than 70% of the people want
Congressman Jamie Raskin, speaking on the tube this week, spoke to the fact that Trump has basically indicted himself by the statements he made on TV and other publically recorded media. But when Raskin was asked to lay it on the