Obama’s Presidency
A really important question was being debated on TV last Sunday. Has the president lost the American people and will he recover from this very bad year. Of course Bill Kristol and the Right were loaded for bear, championing the
The NSA and Snowden
Michael Hayden is one very smart cookie. He makes the best defense of the security establishments egregious invasions of American privacy imaginable but even Hayden can’t make me believe that NSA isn’t more interested in power than they are in security.
Benghazi Again
There was big news last week about a bunch of archeologists digging up some old bones in Europe that seem to have changed the known history of how man has developed. Actually this shouldn’t be big news at all because it
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
Cheer, Cheer for the Big Bucks
Being as it’s New Years Day, and all the bowl action is taking up most of the viewing space on the tube, I thought that this was an apt subject to explore. There’s been a lot of noise made lately about
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