The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Could it have been done differently? That’s the big question being asked about the evacuation of Afghanistan. The obvious answer is yes, probably about a dozen ways, but then one has to ask, “Would the alternatives have been any better?” I guess
In my last blog I wrote about critics attacking Joe Biden for his decision to get the hell out of Afghanistan. Then on Sunday morning Martha Raddatz, despite being someone who should know better, gave us the ultimate example of what I
The pundits are having a field day. Fox News and its fellow travelers are braying like ruptured bulls and the NY Post, whose reporters barely know where to find Afghanistan, is giving it ten pages every day just so they have enough
We all watched Liz Cheney spend last Sunday morning attacking Joe Biden over the withdrawal from Afghanistan. She also blamed Trump and almost everyone else including Rand Paul and Santa Claus. The only ones she managed to avoid naming were the ones
At the beginning of the Jan6 Hearings, GOP Minority Leaders Kevin McCarthy and Moscow Mitch McConnell stated that they hadn’t bothered to listen to or watch the testimony of the four policemen who appeared before the investigating Committee. These were only four
A lot of noise has been made recently about unruly passengers on our airlines. Yes, it’s dangerous and yes, it’s unacceptable but in many cases the cause is actually airlines themselves. I’m not talking about the airline employees. I’m talking about the
Nancy Pelosi gave Kevin McCarthy 5 seats on the House Jan. 6th investigation Committee and instead of being a gentleman, something of which he is completely incapable of being, and providing five functional members of his party (not an easy job), McCarthy
The recent building collapse near Miami set off a shit storm of accusations, lawsuits and criminal investigations that will last until all memory of the actual collapse is long gone. Everyone is looking for someone to blame and a way to
A couple of posts back I had one that was entitled “You Can’t Fix Stupid.” It was about our inability to deal with those who are actually and legitimately too ignorant to understand the realities of life or those who deliberately refuse
In the process of attempting to push through the greatest expansion in social spending maybe ever, Joe Biden has enlisted an eager Bernie Sanders to unite the progressive caucus behind Biden’s bi-partisan infrastructure bill and social legislation of much greater scale, that