The Urban Curmudgeon
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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.
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
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
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
American healthcare stinks so why aren’t the Republicans, who don’t want Obamacare, doing anything to help solve the problem? A New York Times editorial on 11/18 states firmly that we rank at or near the bottom of most healthcare categories
There was a train wreck last Sunday morning on Amtrack. Four people were killed. We have had auto accidents in this city with higher death tolls that didn’t make the Six O’clock News, but this accident, mainly because it was a
November 22nd, 1963 is the date on which America went from optimism to cynicism. It turned a generation that had rebuilt the world after WWII, an energetic, entrepreneurial wave of triumphant survivors of that planet wide horror,
The noise among the talking heads this week is all about how Obama screwed up with the implementation of the ACA, and that criticism is certainly valid but the comparisons to Bush , the deserter, and Katrina are just as
There has never been anything like the NSA’s omnivorous appetite for every item of information available on the planet and now we see that they are checking out porn sites to see if anyone they want to smear is using them. Joe
The Battle for Obamacare goes on. John Dean points out that no huge program, private or public ever gets off the board without glitches and that stands twice as strong for government programs. He also points out that the program is