Religion Gone Wild
I don’t know if you’ve noticed lately but there is a lot of weird stuff happening in the world and a great deal of it is coming from the propagators of religion and the religious right. But it’s not just
Category: Social Commentary
Merry Xmas to the Poor
Well, we missed a week. The Curmudgeon was playing the part of the loving grandfather over the Christmas holiday. Of course it wasn’t a merry Christmas for 1.3 million families that had their unemployment insurance cut off by the far right
Duck You
The stain of reality TV reached all across the country last week when the star of Duck Dynasty spoke what’s left of his mind on his beliefs about homosexuality in GQ. Half the straights and all the gays in the country
Bits & Pieces #40
Even in the midst of the overbearing controversy over whether to allow a disaster like the XL Pipeline, the oil industry can’t keep their hands clean. On September 29tyh the Tesoro Pipeline fractured and dumped over 865,200 gallons of
American Healthcare Stinks
American healthcare stinks so why aren’t the Republicans, who don’t want Obamacare, doing anything to help solve the problem? A New York Times editorial on 11/18 states firmly that we rank at or near the bottom of most healthcare categories
Looking For Terrorists In All The Wrong Places
There was a train wreck last Sunday morning on Amtrack. Four people were killed. We have had auto accidents in this city with higher death tolls that didn’t make the Six O’clock News, but this accident, mainly because it was a
The Legend
November 22nd, 1963 is the date on which America went from optimism to cynicism. It turned a generation that had rebuilt the world after WWII, an energetic, entrepreneurial wave of triumphant survivors of that planet wide horror,
Obamacare’s Reality
The noise among the talking heads this week is all about how Obama screwed up with the implementation of the ACA, and that criticism is certainly valid but the comparisons to Bush , the deserter, and Katrina are just as
The Secret Government Pt. II
There has never been anything like the NSA’s omnivorous appetite for every item of information available on the planet and now we see that they are checking out porn sites to see if anyone they want to smear is using them. Joe
Classified Is As Classified Does
The current battle going on between the CIA and Judicial Watch over pictures of Osama bin Laden’s dead body illustrates the reason why informed members of the American public don’t trust their government or its agencies. The CIA