Tag Archives: Charlie Kaufman

And this is why we can’t find anyone to serve in our Diplomatic Corps

By Mark | October 13, 2017

Yesterday, when Energy Secretary Rick Perry referred to Puerto Rico as a country, apparently not understanding that it’s an American territory, I though that we’d perhaps reached a Trump administration low point that might actually stand through the weekend. But then Trump took the stage at at a conference of American hate groups today and […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ambassador, diplomacy, diplomatic corps, Donald Trump, foreign relations, Puerto Rico, Rick Perry, State Department, Virgin Islands | 10 Comments

“What I have to Offer”… by Charlie Kaufman

By Mark | January 8, 2014

I was on the brink of posting something just now that I wasn’t all that happy with. I felt as though I had to post something, and it, I thought, was good enough. I knew, though, as my finger was floating above the button that would have excreted it onto the internet, that it wasn’t […]