The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
What is wrong with the NYC police? Overnight they have gone from a respected, model organization to a bunch of stupid thugs. The arrest of Naomi Wolf the other night is just outrageous and must reflect badly on the department. Ray Kelly
I was on my way down to Zucotti Park on Thursday evening and ran into a march against the Keystone Pipeline. Okay, I thought, that’s a specific that needs addressing. Good for them. There’s been a lot of noise lately about the
A little noticed story appeared on page 20 of the 11/25 New York Times. Popular NPR, All Things Considered, co-host Michelle Norris will be leaving her post on the show until after the 2012 presidential elections because he husband Broderick Johnson will
Watched an interesting discussion on the Chris Matthews show in which it was correctly pointed out that Obama made a huge mistake by saying in public that the Republicans wouldn’t play nice with him. It made him look weak and ineffectual. What
The Tuesday August 2nd, New York Times Arts section has a page one story written by Robin Pogrebin about a woman named Erika Nelson who horror of horrors just lost her $2,000 grant from the state of Kansas that supports her mobile
Dick Cheney in a recent talk regarding Obama’s ordering the death of Anwar al-Awlaki claimed that the President should apologize to the Bush Administration for claiming that they overreacted to 911 because he’s dong the same thing. That’s right Dick, Obama has
I haven’t done a lot of writing on our nations foreign policy, mainly because it takes a whole other set of research and I haven’t had the time, but I have been accumulating bits and pieces along the way and slowly but
Joe Nocera had a column in a recent edition of the Times where he identifies the thyroid problems that have been a plague to certain areas in Poland ever since the meltdown at Chernobyl. I applaud him for bringing this important information
We have gone down the road with Obama but it seems that he just doesn’t see the reality of our situation. His stubborn clinging to the concept that he can have a reasonable debate with the thugs on the Right is just
No I haven’t read the 2000 page Healthcare bill so, normally I wouldn’t have a leg to stand on with either criticism or praise but neither have any of the politicians who are running off at the mouth for or against it.