The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
This week in a southern California town called Murrieta, mobs carrying American flags, led by a raging moron wearing a flag hat demonstrated against immigration, stopping buses full of little children on their way to a processing center where a
This week five intelligent but seemingly senile old men started an argument that could threaten to tear this country apart. I’m speaking, of course, about the Hobby Lobby decision and the repercussions that will echo through the land for the
Over eight million people have signed up for Obamacare and many of them are the young people needed to
If you are one of those people who have had it up to your eyeballs with the way politicians in general but especially how the Republicans have come to use every opportunity, apropos or not, to try to make political hay
As I watch the Republican party, a political group devoid of constructive governing ideas or sensible election policies, lashing out like a mad dog, snapping at everything and everyone that is unlucky enough to get within range of their festering,
For those of you who are trying, and how could it be anything but unsuccessfully, to understand just what the hell it is, that congress does – I sympathize but offer no hope. We exist in a country that is desperately in
This column was supposed to be about the following: In case our government and its various agencies and their local arms have forgotten; this country happened because an empirical government decided to do whatever they wanted and when the people
Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Diane Feinstein, (D) –CA, did an almost complete turnaround from her previously established position of guardian of the intelligence services, when she led an attack on the CIA for what she described as their attempt to
The big debate when we finally get over the non-event of Ukraine is about the minimum wage. The basic existing labor situation in this country is that productivity has risen amazingly in the last two decades but salaries haven’t.
I know this is about money and I’m never surprised at greed or dishonesty when it comes to people trying to make more than they need, but the latest tactics by the Koch’s and other fossil fuel industry vultures