The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolman’s Benevolent Association, the largest NYC police union, is exactly the kind of spokesman that the police don’t need. He is exactly what he rages against, a violent, agitator whose comments lead directly toward, what all
Mark Rogers, the director of security operations for DEF CON, the world’s largest hacker conference and the principal security researcher for the world’s leading mobile security company, Cloudflare, has come out and stated that. the FBI’s statement, accusing North Korea
The standard literary definition of insanity is to continually repeat the same action and expect a different result. Our country has been doing that with Cuba for over 50 years. This week Barak Obama made good on an electoral promise,
I’ve stayed away from writing about Fergusson, not because I don’t think there is a real problem with our local police departments and bigotry but because I didn’t think that the two victims being ballyhooed by press and public were
Suicide. There are more and more of them in this world and for more and more reasons, but this column is going to concentrate today on physician assisted suicide which for some God forsaken reason is legal in only five states
I know that it makes for saleable media but we have to stop calling every nutcase who wields a weapon in public a terrorist. Reporters on TV this week whined in horror about the terrorists in Canada and the U.S. who
“I personally believe in Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, but I am also a killer. I’ve killed a lot and if I need to, I’ll kill a whole bunch more. If you don’t want to get killed don’t show
As usual, the country is responding to the Ebla crisis the way they respond to everything else. PANIC! There is a leadership aspect to decision-making that has nothing to do with what the people want. The Ebola crisis is a perfect
The Ebola crisis continues to grow with panic in the streets and all kinds of dumb ideas adding to the ridiculous panic. A school has been closed in Mississippi because the principle had traveled to Zambia, a nation in Africa but
Melissa Harris-Perry had Ta-Nehsei Coates on her show a while back. This is a seemingly intelligent writer for The Atlantic, who had recently revived the old argument for reparations for the black community for their enforced slavery. It’s an argument