Opinion: The Curmudgeon on “A Billion Here, a Billion There…”
The Curmudgeon quotes former Senator Everett Dirksen "A billion here, a billion there..." and applies it to Brazilian government and...
May 20, 2014Topic
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Opinion: The Curmudgeon Predicts [the rest of] 2014
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - [January] “In June and July come the World Cup, which means...
May 6, 2014 Opinion: The Curmudgeon on the Coup d’état
The strangeness of having no date on which to celebrate the end of the dictatorship.
April 1, 2014
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on Downtown Traffic
Opinion, By Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - This week marks the beginning of the end for Rio traffic....
January 28, 2014 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, 2013
The Curmudgeon on Foreign Doctors (Revisited)
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Cubans are coming! The Cubans are coming! Card Carrying Communists...
August 27, 2013
The Curmudgeon’s Theorem on Mishaps, Major and Minor
The Theorem: Major Mishaps do not preclude the occurrence of Minor Mishaps; rather, the Minor may precede, predict or presuppose...
January 8, 2013
The Curmudgeon on the Bull in the China Shop
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Weekly news magazine “Veja” recently published an interview with Gilmar Mendes,...
June 5, 2012
Cachoeira CPI, MIB3 and Pizza
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A leitmotif of the just-released MIB3 is people saying profoundly: “Never...
May 29, 2012