Faceless Bureaucrat

Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.

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Saturday, February 12, 2022

How Serious Would Ukraine Be

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David Brooks on the Newshour has a rosy picture of post-1945 European history. He said last night on the Newshour that a Russian invasion ...

Sunday, October 30, 2016

The Times and GMO Crops--Something Screwy

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NYTimes has a front page article on the usage of GMO crops: comparing the yields and herbicide usage between US/Canada and Europe. Not sur...

Sunday, November 15, 2015

EU Terrorism Deaths, Higher in 1970's

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I vaguely remember the terrorism of the past, but I'm dumbfounded by this graph, which comes from a Fivethirtyeight post on terrorism. ...

Saturday, September 07, 2013

4-H and the Economist

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Interesting article praising 4-H in The Economist, implying that it, extension, and land-grant u's account for the differences between U...

Sunday, September 25, 2011

US Refrigerators 3X European

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That's a factoid from a NY Times article on an automated refrigerator recycling facility: US refrigerators are three times the size of E...

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