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.

Monday, July 31, 2017

The Deer from My Window

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I'm not the photographer Kevin Drum is, but I do have wildlife I can see from my living room window, much to the detriment of our hostas...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Clovis Piece

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Politico has a piece on Sam Clovis , which is surprisingly positive.

Improper Payments and Election Fraud

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GovExec has a piece on a proposed commission to look at steps to reduce improper payments.  It's good, but I'd like to make a conne...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Electric Cars Don't Need More Generating Capacity?

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From a Technology Review piece skeptical of Elon Musk's ambitions: A 2007 study by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found ...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Administrative Procedures and Trump

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This ThinkProgress post represents one of the hurdles for the Trump revolution:  simply put, once a regulation is in place, the bureaucracy ...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

How the Brits Do Government IT

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The blog.Gov.uk site is the blog for the UK government, as you might guess.  It's interesting to follow the posts, seeing some of the di...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Clovis Redux

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The appointment of Sam Clovis might be in trouble, as he had an interview in 2014 in which he was critical of crop insurance, which has bec...

Opposition to Clovis

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From the Yonder, a letter opposing the appointment of Sam Clovis as Undersecretary, USDA, for research.  His background (mainly conservativ...

Actuaries Don't Risk in Marriage

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Flowing Data has an interesting post showing divorce rates by occupation.  Lots of data, but a couple highlights:  the military and farmers ...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Technology and Dairy

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Dairy Carrie reports spending $20,000 on necklaces for their dairy cows.  These are high-tech jobs, which provide indicators when the cow i...
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