The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Recent FBI documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justine Fund under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that the FBI and Homeland Security have been conducting widespread surveillance on members of the Occupy community aimed at implicating them in
The Keystone Pipeline just doesn’t go away. Of course there’s a good reason. A huge Canadian company that makes billions a year wants the pipeline and is willing to spend plenty in lobbyist fees to get it. Not only are
The front page of the NY Times was fascinating on Saturday February 2, featuring, as it did, two stories, told from opposite points of view, with each capturing the abject failures of the Roman Catholic church and organized religion, in
Got what was supposed to be an insightful poem from a friend of mine today. It was written in 1949, which, I guess is the point, but the point really was that it is yet another attack by the right
The latest news out of our justice community. The filing of a Freedom of information Act brief by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has revealed that the FBI was in possession of information indicating that certain leaders of the
Remember this acronym. SDI. It stands for systemically dangerous institutions. Translation: banks that are too big to fail. Somehow, those in charge of our staggering, inherently fallible, economic system have decided that such institutions actually exist. The only criteria
The Republican’s, having given up small points like minimal tax increases for the top 1% think hay have avoided being stigmatized by the rest of us for allowing us to avoid the fiscal cliff, so they are now making big