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, June 20, 2020

The Statue of King George III

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I'm reminded that the American revolutionaries pulled down the statue of King George III in New York City and, I believe, turned it into...

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Diversity at the Founding

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J. L. Bell in Boston 1776 discusses the deliberations which led to the Great Seal (and Franklin's turkey). The various proposals incl...

Monday, May 04, 2015

Horatio Hornblower Never Thought of This:

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I read C.S.Foresters Hornblower series, and reread them, and reread them, and reread them... The appeal was the Hornblower character, an e...

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Spain in the U.S.

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I'm aware that St. Augustine, Florida represents the earliest European city in the US (some qualifications to that), and the Southwest,...

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Our Christian Nation Founded in Sin?

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John Fea reports that one conservative scholar believes it was unChristian to rebel against Britain.

Monday, May 07, 2012

Political Advertising in the Colonies

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Boston 1775 has a guest blogger discussing "milestones"; no, not as in project planning but as in physical stones which mark the m...

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