Recent content by Robert Urbanek

Knowing that it’s pronouncements on war and peace can cause wild shifts in the stock market, is it likely that Iran has agents who are using that “insider” information to make profits in the stock market?

Yes, most likely the seniors taking the meds are gays who have been on anti-HIV medication for several years.

For a moment, I thought you meant the Village People.

Decades later, the reckless sexual freedom that began in the 60’s still carries a huge price. The annual Medicare cost for Biktarvy, a treatment for HIV (the precursor to AIDS) for 101,000 elderly patients, is $3.9 billion. The government wants to negotiate lower prices for Biktarvy and several...

There may be another reason she was canned. Trump's Iran war puts America at higher risk for attacks here from Iranian agents, jihadists and anti-Israel and anti-US homegrown "lone wolves." Noem is not competent to handle those threats to our homeland security.

Can I sue AARP for addictive games? An AARP game promotion: Do you love Bubble Shooter? Get ready for a whole new dimension of excitement with Bubble Tower 3D, the addictive puzzle game where strategy, precision, and quick thinking stack up to big wins! Now that tech giants can be sued for...

The Love of the Irish

On two occasions, the roll of toilet paper in one of my bathrooms began unrolling on its own, with the tissue nearly reaching the floor. Once it happened while I was sitting on the toilet, the other time when I was out of that room but could hear the tissue unraveling. The window was not open...

Despite his protests that climate change is a hoax, Trump’s actions involving Canada, Greenland and Venezuela suggests he wants and is planning for a hot planet. He knows global warming will create shipping and naval routes around Greenland, and he wants Canada as a 51st state so U.S. citizens...

The rise in obesity in the U.S. seems to parallel the fall in the number of people smoking. Did one oral fixation, eating, replace the other oral fixation, smoking, and diabetes replace lung cancer? Apparently, Americans need to put something in their mouth to change their mood when they are...

The upcoming Slate electric pickup truck, with roll-down windows and no radio in the base version, will sell for an estimated $25,000. According to Slate Automotive, over 100,000 people have already placed $50 reservations on the vehicle. How basic a vehicle would you settle for, whether...

“Though I had always wanted to be an opium addict, I can’t claim that is the reason I went to China.” Thus begins “The Big Smoke,” Emily Hahn’s account of her 1930’s globetrotting in a 1969 issue of The New Yorker. And thus also begins Ariel Levy’s December 1, 2025 review looking back at that...

I'm leaning toward a more fatalistic attitude and the belief that history is a story, and all stories must come to an end.

“The Big Ice Is Sick,” a Dec. 1 article in The New Yorker, laments the plight of Inuits in Greenland: Toxic chemicals are concentrated in the whale and bear meat they eat; tourism scares away the narwhales; and alcoholism plagues communities idled by lack of opportunities. So, what was the Inuit...