Your headliner for these shows is Robert Dubac, an LA-based performer who is brilliant and thoughtful and everything one could ask for in a (non-economist) comedian. He’s volunteered to headline these shows on his way to Bellingham for shows May 13-18 at the Mount Baker Theatre of his one-man show The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron? I will have just returned from my Supply Side World Tour (including a performance at Oxford!) and on the 11th I’ll do a 45-minute “stand-up economist” routine as an opening act, and if there’s demand for it I’ll do it on the 12th as well. So if you want to see what’s funny about economics, this is your chance—I may not be everything one could ask for in an economist comedian, but I’m all there is! The shows are benefits for Sightline Institute, a non-profit I’ve been affiliated with since 1997, when I started an internship there to help research a book on environmental taxes. Even better news is that the money we raise will go towards some carbon tax troublemaking that I’m working on with Sightline and a bunch of other groups and individuals. (Send me an email if you want more info.) Any additional donations you can make on those nights will be matched by yours truly, up to a total of $5000.