The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Well, the Republican pundits have stopped braying about how we should get off all the small stuff and get on the big job of creating jobs. They obviously felt that way during the election because Obama’s record on it
There has been a lot of discussion, mosty on the Right, about cutting down the size of government. It’s a pretty senseless argument because anyone who has reached the age of seven should be able to understand why we need
The Republicans love to run up the flag by attacking Obama about his supposedly apologizing to foreign countries about America. Well, sometimes we need to apologize for the dumb and antagonistic things we do but what Obama has really been
I was having a discussion the other day, with my son, who is in the business of developing real estate. He was upset at the fact that there are people out in the marketplace who have stopped paying on their mortgages
On This Week with Whoever Shows Up, Ed Gillespie, the Republican Party’s attack liar used a quote by George Stephanopoulos. George noted the misquote but didn’t even have the stones to seriously call him on it. What use is a host
Read a brilliant column by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone yesterday in which he savagely attacks the whole election process for the time wasted, the money spent and the unending hype produced. He goes on to advocate that the whole
Paul Krugman, in Friday’s New York Times, brings up a point that I have railed about many times in this much less significant space. He comes at it from a different angle but it’s really the same rant. We
Read a brilliant column by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone yesterday in which he savagely attacks the whole election process for the time wasted, the money spent and the unending hype produced. He goes on to advocate that the whole
Did you know that 352 members of congress have left office since 1998? Did you know that 278 of them, 79%, have become lobbyists? That’s why nothing works for anyone but the rich. *** The seeming ease with which three
The most important thing that Bill Clinton did in his speech at the convention was to remind voters, why they had elected Barak Obama. That is the key to any success that Obama will have in this election and just