The New Robin Hoods
Our country has always rooted for heroes, but in the last half century we have developed a new kind of hero to make the fans wave the banners harder. This one is a new kind of Robin Hood, a wunderkind who robs
Category: Politics
Terrorism X Two
Let’s hear it for homeland security. The brave lads and lassies who spend their every waking hour fighting to protect us from the evil forces of Godless non-Christianity, have triumphed again. This time it was a terrorist invasion by a
Can’t We Fix the NSA?
Rep Mike McCall,( R )Texas stated recently. on national TV, that Ed Snowden is a traitor working for a foreign power. Of course he couldn’t name the foreign power or show any proof that Snowden was doing anything except what he
Jobs! Jobs! jobs!
The GOP has all the Evangelicals out praying their butts off that the ACA fails or at least looks bad long enough for them to make it the primary item in the 2014 election but that’s not really what’s important at
Bits & Pieces #41
Kristen Gillibrand is now hearing noise about running for President. Ms Gillibrand is presidentially attractive, intelligent and a clever speaker but she just doesn’t have the gravitas to make this run now. I’ve seen her in two instances get her
Obama’s Presidency
A really important question was being debated on TV last Sunday. Has the president lost the American people and will he recover from this very bad year. Of course Bill Kristol and the Right were loaded for bear, championing the
The NSA and Snowden
Michael Hayden is one very smart cookie. He makes the best defense of the security establishments egregious invasions of American privacy imaginable but even Hayden can’t make me believe that NSA isn’t more interested in power than they are in security.
Benghazi Again
There was big news last week about a bunch of archeologists digging up some old bones in Europe that seem to have changed the known history of how man has developed. Actually this shouldn’t be big news at all because it
Merry Xmas to the Poor
Well, we missed a week. The Curmudgeon was playing the part of the loving grandfather over the Christmas holiday. Of course it wasn’t a merry Christmas for 1.3 million families that had their unemployment insurance cut off by the far right
Bits & Pieces #40
Even in the midst of the overbearing controversy over whether to allow a disaster like the XL Pipeline, the oil industry can’t keep their hands clean. On September 29tyh the Tesoro Pipeline fractured and dumped over 865,200 gallons of