The Curmudgeon on “Pork Barrel”
Opinion, By Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “Orçamento impositivo” is the sesquipedalian rendering in Portuguese of “pork barrel”...
December 10, 2013Section
Op-Ed
Editorial, Opinion and Letters to the Editor
The Curmudgeon on “Secret” Ballots
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Last August 28th, in a secret ballot, the Federal Chamber of...
December 3, 2013 The Curmudgeon on Lockerbie Revisited
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Curmudgeon does not believe that José Genuíno is any more...
November 26, 2013Letter: Brazil, Crime and Poverty and How to Solve it?
Letter to the Editor, by Eduardo Scuratovski De Gasperi RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In 2008 the world experienced an...
November 26, 2013 The Curmudgeon on the Gang of Four. Again.
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On Wednesday, November 13th a majority of the Federal Supreme Court...
November 19, 2013 The Curmudgeon on Divided Loyalties
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Since the politicians have not done anything outrageous this week, the...
November 5, 2013
The Curmudgeon on Privacy and/or Censorship
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - At the time of writing, the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) is...
October 29, 2013 The Curmudgeon on the 2014 Elections (Revised)
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In his June 11th column, the Curmudgeon stated: “Elections will be...
October 15, 2013Letter: Canada and Brazil
Letter to the Editor by Laurie Clark I was born and have lived in Canada for almost sixty years. First,...
October 15, 2013