The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
This Friday July 4, 2014, I sat in Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center and listened joyfully as the NY Philharmonic, about one hundred strong, played a brilliant version of the National Anthem. As I listened, all I could think
There’s been an awful uproar of late over the IRS investigations being conducted by our witch hunting congressional committee headed by that salivating bottom feeder, Daryl Issa,. The head of the IRS has been called a liar, which he probably
Notice how Bowe Bergdhal has disappeared completely from the news? Ever wonder why? Maybe it’s because it was never that big of a story after all. Once he was rescued there wasn’t anything to say. But the GOP had a lot to
The Supreme Court made the wrong call on the Hobby Lobby They still haven’t figured out that a company is not a person. Maybe they don’t want to figure that one out. But they also made the wrong call on
This week in a southern California town called Murrieta, mobs carrying American flags, led by a raging moron wearing a flag hat demonstrated against immigration, stopping buses full of little children on their way to a processing center where a
This week five intelligent but seemingly senile old men started an argument that could threaten to tear this country apart. I’m speaking, of course, about the Hobby Lobby decision and the repercussions that will echo through the land for the
This week five intelligent but seemingly senile old men started an argument that could threaten to tear this country apart. I’m speaking, of course, about the Hobby Lobby decision and the repercussions that will echo through the land for the
There has been a great deal of outrage lately about the conditions in our veterans hospitals and about the general care of those who have given their time and various parts of their bodies and minds to defend this country in
As if to prove that the last thing we need in the health care industry is insurance companies and to give us one more reason to want a single payer system, we are now faced with the latest insurance scam.
Over eight million people have signed up for Obamacare and many of them are the young people needed to