The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
A lot of talk right now on what to do about the increase of COVID- 19 cases with Nancy Pelosi explaining that we wear masks to protect others, not necessarily ourselves, and of course we have people wondering why Trump won’t wear
Black lives matter. Absolutely! But we will not have a functioning civilization unless all lives matter and throughout American history we as a nation have failed to make black lives matter just as much as white lives. That must stop now!
Various parts of the country are opening and there is a great deal of controversy over what is more important, the health and safety of the people, or the economy? The obvious answer, at least to anyone that can think,
So next Thursday Donald Trump is having one of his MAGA rallies in Tulsa. Tulsa? Isn’t that where in 1921 we had one of the greatest racist massacres in the nation’s history? Are you sure this is a good idea Steve
There’s nothing like a great slogan: “Win One For The Gipper!” inspired thousands of young athletes. “Black Lives Matter!” is inspiring millions across the world. “Make America Great Again!” got a churl elected to the Presidency of the United States. “Defund
So we watched for three and a half years as Donald Trump pretty much failed at everything. His government passed only one bill and in an age of almost stunning economic inequality it only helped the rich get richer. He
Trump’s latest splatter of lies has ended up in a place where it actually may do some good. His nonsensical accusation of murder against TV host Joe Scarborough has led Twitter, the Presidential truth-less platform, to post a notice checking the
I don’t know how my readers feel about Andrew Cuomo. I have certainly disagreed with many of his decisions since he took office. But when the shit hit the fan he was standing there on his hind legs, a hero. While
With the Coronavirus and its horrendous results taking up all the space in our world today and with our egomaniacal President sucking all the air out of whatever is left, there doesn’t seem to be any air available for anything
Peter Navarro, one of Trump’s hack trade advisors, lied his way through an appearance on This Week Sunday by bullshitting about what the government was doing in February to boost the economy. What the administration was doing in February was denying