The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
“Crap and mendacity, that’s what Big Daddy says”, wrote Tennessee Williams and boy was he on target. It is the major tenant of all our current communication networks. I keep getting emails from my Right wing friends filled with accusations
The cherry blossoms may not have appeared yet but budgets are blooming all over The Capital. True the Republicans have been coming out with useless budgets regularly but for the Democrats this is the first in a long time. Of
As I stated in an earlier blog, the problem is not the drones, the problem is the people picking the targets, mainly because they seem to have no idea what is actually going on in the Islamic world. This
Went to a convention of No Labels, the other day. No Labels is an organization that is trying to convince members of congress to abandon their polarizing stances and come together to get stuff done. They are a very encouraging
The current Republican party, especially in the last few years seems to have embarked on a program to solidify their reputation as the most bizarre group of potential inmates in the history of mental illness. A woman started the trend when Sarah
Got what was supposed to be an insightful poem from a friend of mine today. It was written in 1949, which, I guess is the point, but the point really was that it is yet another attack by the right
The latest news out of our justice community. The filing of a Freedom of information Act brief by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has revealed that the FBI was in possession of information indicating that certain leaders of the
The Republican’s, having given up small points like minimal tax increases for the top 1% think hay have avoided being stigmatized by the rest of us for allowing us to avoid the fiscal cliff, so they are now making big
In 2012 the chief aggression against the US military in Afghanistan was brought by Afghan troops who were supposedly on our side. What could possibly have caused such a phenomenon to develop? Think about it. For twelve years we have been occupying
The up and coming fight over the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense should be a neat one. The Republican’s have drawn up their full neo-com battery of complaints and complainers in a pre-nomination attempt to influence the