Saturday, September 30, 2006

Clinton Failed and I Failed

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Clinton said he failed to get bin Laden and I failed in the project to get USDA agencies to share data. Here's an excerpt from an artic...

What Does The Future Hold?

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The Times has an analysis of the new legislation on terrorism which includes these thoughts: How the measure will look decades hence may d...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

Why Catholics in the FBI?

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Reading Mr. Wright's "Looming Tower" on the rise of al-Qaeda. It's good. One interesting side note is John O'Neill, ...

Why Is a Fighter Pilot Like a Farmer?

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This piece in the Times on how the fighter community beat Rummy to get more F-22's (at $350mill a crack) prompts me to compare pilots a...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Republican Management--An Oxymoron?

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Perhaps the most significant long term aspect of the uproar over the National Intelligence Estimate is buried at the end of the Karen DeYoun...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Why I Drink

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From a paper trying to prove that male drinkers make more money than nondrinkers, via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution : "Whether ab...
Monday, September 25, 2006

As Close as I'll Come to Making the Front Page of NYTimes

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That's today's article on "generator men" in Baghdad: "In offices across Iraq , a ritual plays out every morning duri...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Who's a Farmer? Whitman College?

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The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reports on a violation of payment limitation rules by Whitman College, which owns 15 farms. CRP payments ar...
Saturday, September 23, 2006

Bolivar County

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I visited Bolivar County, Mississippi a time or two as part of an aborted "Info Share" project (trying to get different agencies o...
Friday, September 22, 2006

Risk Management Deja Vu

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A couple of different pieces on Risk Management (Federal Crop Insurance Corporation) that brought a smile to my face: From an i nterview by ...