The Curmudgeon on Affirmative Action
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “Brown vs. Board of Education” is without doubt the single best...
May 1, 2012Section
Op-Ed
Editorial, Opinion and Letters to the Editor
The Curmudgeon celebrates “A Cachaça é Nossa!”
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A few generations ago, the rallying cry for granting Petrobrás a...
April 17, 2012
The Curmudgeon on Outrage
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - It’s been a good week for outrage, in Brazil and abroad....
April 10, 2012
The Curmudgeon on The Falklands
Opinion, By Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Thirty years ago, the reigning Junta in Brazil’s largest neighbor to...
April 3, 2012
The Curmudgeon On Rio+20
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Curmudgeon understands nothing at all about ecology or the environment,...
March 20, 2012
The Curmudgeon on Boys Will Be Boys
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On the Ca-lends of March, a couple of weeks before a...
March 13, 2012
Gone Fishin
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy. Fish are jumpin’…” George Gershwin...
March 6, 2012
The Curmudgeon Below the Antarctic Circle
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s favorite penguin used to be the one placed on the...
February 28, 2012
The Curmudgeon on Trusts and Estates
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Liar, liar, pants on fire! Last week the Curmudgeon tilted at...
February 21, 2012