The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Donald Trump was out the other day, once again proving his stupidity, as he blabbered about raking the forest floor to prevent the leaves catching fire. No asshole, this is not what prevents forest fire. In fact leaves are necessary on the
In a recent blog I laid out what in my opinion, the road map of Democratic action should be as soon as they take office in January. I was thoroughly attacked by friend and foe alike for not placing climate change in
307 mass shootings in the last 311 days. Forget Afghanistan, the war is here. Anyone who doesn’t recognize this belongs on the board of the NRA. I grew up a hunter and for almost twenty years in mid-life held a Federal Firearms
So all the shouting is over, at least until the recount results come in, and I’m sitting here looking at the election results so far. The Republicans have, as expected, retained the Senate while the Democrats have taken the House and
We have already established beyond contention that Donald Trump is the most foul progenitor of the big lie ever to occupy the White House and probably ever in politics in general. So just to keep his place in history Trump stepped
The ever-brilliant Jon Meacham asked the most telling question this morning. “Has anyone with the possible exception of Nikki Haley emerged from being in the Trump circle with any part of his or her reputation intact?” It made this writer stop
Well, the Saudis have finally fessed up. They admit that Jamal Khashoggi is dead but claim that he was killed in a fight when he suffocated in a headlock. Sure, and my bridge is up for sale again. Middle-aged intellectuals in poor
The pig in the White House had a field day recently attacking Stormy Daniels by calling her Horse Face. Of course this isn’t new. Trump has a huge and well- documented history of attacking people about their looks and other formerly
Washington Post correspondent, Jamal Khashoggi has disappeared. The last known sighting of him was entering the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Turkey. Our own intelligence services using information supplied by the Turkish government report indications that Khashoggi was killed and dismembered while
Hopefully this will be the last thing I ever write about Brett Kavanaugh and his abortive reach for the Supreme Court. As I’ve stated before it was a job interview, not a trial and when he stood before the Senate and delivered