The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Tomorrow morning, April 7th in Knoxville, Tennessee three people will go on trial for demonstrating to the American public what a bunch of incompetent assholes the Department of Energy has amassed under its banner. The trio faces 20 years in jail. A
Dick Cheney was back on the tube last week, proving that some people are too stupid to know when to keep their mouths shut. Cheney is unbelievably lucky he’s not in jail right now but he has no concept of that.
The madness over the past week has taught us a number of lessons and hopefully it has adjusted some concepts about terrorism, the American spirit and just what is important to the way we live in these times, in this
David Ignatius commentd on Chris Matthew’s show hat Chris Christie would eat Jeb Bush if they ever went head to head in a presidential debate. Why not, Christie already looks like he ate both the Georges and had Barbara for
There’s been a lot of noise made lately about drones, and how they are an immoral weapon in our war against terrorism, but in attacking drones, I really think that we are wasting our ammunition and shooting at the wrong target.
I really didn’t want to get into the marriage controversy. The argument has always seemed too stupid to deal with. I mean who cares who marries who? What difference could it possibly make to anyone, who his next-door neighbor married?
For those of us who grew up in the shadow of WWII, fear was something with which we had a more than passing acquaintance. The first time I felt fear was sitting in our living room in Cliffside Park,
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 title question is such a wide category that for the moment I’ve had to narrow it down a bit, so today we’ll just deal with two of the most obvious non-governmental problems, Wall Street and the fossil fuel industry.
Recent FBI documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justine Fund under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that the FBI and Homeland Security have been conducting widespread surveillance on members of the Occupy community aimed at implicating them in