The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
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
Okay, so it’s over but that doesn’t mean that there’s no ugly residue. Sure the GOP wasted someplace between $24 billion and $54 billion, depending who you listen to, hard earned American taxpayer dollars for no good reason but that’s
Royal Dutch Shell, one of the foreign oil companies that keep running ads on American television informing us what a great bunch of guys they are and how much they’re doing to help America has just been fined $1.1 million for
So the losers in Washington have kept the country from defaulting, as least for a while. What they should have done four months ago is to have passed the debt limit and everything else and then immediately gotten down to fixing
Let’s hear it for the party that wants to f__k kids with cancer. That’s right, you heard me. That’s what the Greedy Old Pigs are doing right now, because among the services that the government they shut down, used to