Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Words of Wisdom From the Eighteenth Century

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Boston 1775 is a good blog on everything around the Revolution.  Today in d iscussing the Salem gunpowder incident, he offers some words of ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Pseudo Science and Whole Foods

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As a stockholder in Whole Foods (it's done well over the last decade or so) I welcome all positive news for the company.  So I shouldn...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Blast from the Past: ACP

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The old Agricultural Conservation program was in operation when I joined ASCS.  I can remember a trip by a county executive director (Pitt c...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Words of Wisdom From a Teenager

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“You can create your own miracle,” Shiffrin said when the gold medal was on a sash draped around her neck. “But you do it by never lookin...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Understatement of 2008

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"The failure of a major investment bank, the forced merger of another, the largest thrift and insurer teetering, and the failure of Fr...
Friday, February 21, 2014

The Persistence of Error

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Mark Twain had lots of things to say about lies, including a line about a lie getting being half-way round the world while truth was still g...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Bad Mistake: Gates and SOFAs

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Reading Mr. Gates' memoir, Duty.  He talks about negotiating a status of forces agreement with Iraq and making a very bad mistake:  tell...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Pigford Is Over?

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That's the message, without the question mark, of this FSA notice.   I await a scholarly study of the episode.

Paperless Government

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The Post has an article describing the efforts of the paper industry to lobby against "paperless government", like the requiremen...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

LBJ and Vietnam

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The NYTimes had an article on LBJ's legacy.  The premise of the article is the legacy has been overwhelmed by Vietnam and his other ach...