The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Everybody who knows anything has agreed that the economy will be the big thing in the November election. Mitt Romney believed that so he shoved Bain capital down our throats to prove that he knew how to create jobs. Unfortunately
In the last year and a half I have been accused of being a liberal, a socialist, even a communist, mostly by people who don’t know what communism is about . These accusations, however, may have had some basis because in looking
I think the GOP and its backers have to decide if they want to live in a country or in a conglomeration of medieval city-states. What is emerging as a Republican philosophy, (They would deny to the death that they
If it weren’t already blatantly clear, the result of the vote in Wisconsin is a perfect example of why we have to get big money out of the electoral process before it turns our country into a third world dictatorship. There are
I was reading an article by Matt Taibbi today that dealt with the recovery of some of the millions of underwater mortgage properties that currently exist in our blighted country. His solution was interesting but he kept leavening it with the argument
The President stated, a while back, that the private sector was doing okay and that caused the expected eruption of vilification from the right, but if you really look at the statement, it was more accurate than anything the Republican’s have said
Quote of the month from Mat Taibi: “Romney can’t even be mean with any honesty. Even when he’s pandering to viciousness, ignorance and racism, it comes out like scaly calculation.” *** People keep asking me why I started writing this blog and
Rick Perry, quite possibly the dumbest man ever to make a serious run at the Republican nomination finally got something right a while back, when he called Mitt Romney’s company, Bain Vulture Capital. This got David Brooks, one of my favorite Republican
In a political climate where the public is angry and basically uninformed, the President is trying to get re-elected in the face of heavily funded attack ads that have already proven, to be full of lies and half-truths; ads that falsely state
I keep reading articles about how liberals don’t understand conservatives but it works both ways. If conservatives truly understood liberals they would find it ridiculously easy to drive them crazy. Let me play out a little scenario. George Lucas, one of our