The Curmudgeon on “Hygientrification” ©
The Curmudgeon confesses: he has been to Singapore, and he liked it. The Curmudgeon thinks that Hizzoner, aka DuDu, Lord...
May 28, 2013Section
Op-Ed
Editorial, Opinion and Letters to the Editor
The Curmudgeon on “Y oh Y?”
The Curmudgeon wonders why. Why, oh Why? He gets up every morning and walks some 300 meters to the newsstand...
May 14, 2013
The Curmudgeon is Tired!
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Curmudgeon is tired! Football is the opium of the masses,...
April 30, 2013 The Curmudgeon on “the Age of Innocence”
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - There is a Brazilian statute, abbreviated “ECA” which provides that anyone...
April 16, 2013 The Curmudgeon on Popes and Politics
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - ¡Habemus papam! Or, rather, perhaps, given that Roman Catholics are a...
March 19, 2013 The Curmudgeon on “the Opiate of the Masses”
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - God may be Brazilian, but Marx certainly wasn’t. He famously stated...
March 5, 2013
The Curmudgeon on “Mirror, Mirror”
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - No, not last year’s film nominated for an Oscar in Costume...
February 19, 2013 The Curmudgeon on the Vicar of Christ
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Curmudgeon was fortunate enough to have had a law professor...
February 12, 2013
The Curmudgeon on “Cui Bono”
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Cariocas awoke last Friday to discover that, in the wake of...
February 5, 2013