The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
A war or not a war. That is the question. Shakespeare couldn’t answer it, so why do we expect Donald Trump to? That really isn’t what’s important, anyway. What is important is that since we’re in it, we must end the military
On Sunday, February 23, Martha Raddatz did a special piece on the children of Ukraine and how they have been viciously ravaged by Putin’s war. It’s a devastating piece despite the fact that it doesn’t even get into how Putin’s war is
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution tells us that Americans are safe from illegal search and seizure. It tells us that law enforcement cannot invade our homes without a judicial warrant. It’s just one of the legal restraints that make America a
What’s the point of Donald Trump’s crazy carrying on over Greenland? The fat fool in the White House babbles about security, but that’s nonsense. We have all the security we need right now. We’ve had it since WWII, when the air base
So, Trump finally did it. Yes, he did the dirty deed. He actually invaded Venezuela. Of course, he didn’t call it an invasion, he does see himself as a peacemaker, after all, so he called it a police action to apprehend a
And Other Notes From the Past Couple Weeks Donald Trump is really pitching for that Nobel Peace Prize. This month, he sanctioned Russia’s two top revenue-producing oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil. Both are blocked from doing business with any American company, and
So, Donald Trump looked at the calendar last month and panicked. The statute of limitations was running out on one of his least favorite people, James Comey. But the chief prosecutor didn’t want to bring charges because he recognized the case Trump
The mostly absent George Stephanopoulos finally showed up on “This Week with him,” and watched as a battle ensued between Chris Christie and Reince Priebus over whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a functional genius or a terminal asshole. Priebus’s problem is
Marco Rubio, the Donald’s Secretary of State, was all over the tube last Sunday trying to logically explain what is happening in the peace talks, but forever frustrated by Trump’s affinity for the big lie. Trump has lied so definitively over his
The deafening noise this week was all about the friendship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and whether it was based on business, buddy stuff, or Epstein’s ready supply of underage flesh. Mainly because we’ve seen or heard it with our own