Musadeq Sadeq/AP (A street scene in Kabul on Monday) On Monday, after getting a few details about Sunday’s raid, my first thoughts went to the …
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Death by Indifference is Murder
“Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismay’d? Not tho’ the soldier knew someone had blunder’d: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to …
Putting the “Service” Back Into Public Service, Part IV
This is Part IV of the series, A History of Government Employment. Everything we have learned, from public employment in the USSR, the European Union …
The Government Class vs the Private Citizen Class, Part III
This is Part III of my series, A History of Government Employment. Parts I and II are linked here. Part IV I will finish it …
Is There any Virtue in Selfishness?
I’d always thought not, at least in the sense I mean it here; to hold a thing to oneself to the exclusion of almost all …
A Crooked Willie, a Crooked Willie, My Kingdom for a Crooked Willie, or, a Tale of the Birthers
Definition ‘”Birther”: A Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theorist who rejects the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s citizenship and his eligibility to be President. Some of these …
When Somebody Lies to Somebody About Something…
…well, it seems we have two rules about this, and that’s why we’re in the mess we’re in. Haystack has a great analysis up about …
America, The Fly in Government Employment’s Buttermilk, Part II
This is Part II of our History of Government Employment. In Part I we established that government employment, mostly armed to the teeth, has been …
When a Bad Man’s Down, Kick Him
But watch out for that shank in his shoe. Good job, Mr John Boehner, and to your team as well. And to the freshmen and …
A History of Government Employment, Part I
The first 30,000 years, or so. Remember that great opening scene from Kubrick’s “2001, a Space Odyssey” where the apes-about-to-become-hominids have just been run off …
