I know what you’re going to say: I’m getting you to do my homework for me! But I’m...
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
I haven’t done one of these in a while and this one is certainly not a new...
Via the Economist, a poli-sci professor comes up with a clever way to describe tax credits.
“Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?”...
They have their calling cards, don’t they?
Rhesus is a play about connections missed and badly met that has seldom quite connected with audiences, which is...
Like that post on Haiti, I often put things in Off the Cuff just to ask, “Hey,...
In other news, the Obama administration seems to have pressured the Haitian government at the behest of contractors for American companies Levi...
An American Muslim-convert South Park hater was recently arrested in Morocco. My sister actually saw him last week, in Morocco,...
Of course. I’ve always wondered, incidentally, if Barry McGuire was ever tempted to pen a follow-up song...
Have we found a cure for lovesickness yet? Judging by our dramatic works, one might guess we...
The Economist surveys the Arab press on the death of Osama bin Laden and finds one pan-Arab...
After the jump a few of the Vernesque machines from the workshops of Les Machines de l’île...
After few wars have the victors entirely resisted the urge to be as vengeful in peacemaking as...
A recent Washington Monthly profile of Dan Savage draws this interesting* parallel between modern sexual norms and...
I have a very distinct memory from last summer, sitting in a chair on our back...
An old joke: Tonto and the Lone Ranger are surrounded by hostile Indians. The Lone Ranger: It’s...
I posted something recently about the Baltimore B-Note, a local currency being unveiled next month for use...
Coming next month to a store near you, but only if you happen to live in Baltimore, a...
{Note: Just remembered I’ve previously discussed the idea of a moral order reasserting itself in Hecuba here...
