Saturday, March 31, 2018

Importing Brains, Exporting Ideas

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A quote from a Bloomberg piece: Of the 1 million foreign nationals enrolled at U.S. schools, nearly  one-third  are from China -- double t...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Janesville and Liberal Government

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This book just won a prize for nonfiction writing.  If you don't want to read the whole thing, this New Yorker piece of last year w...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

DOD and the Wall?

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Today's story is that President Trump wants the military to pay for his wall on the Mexican border.  He's being mocked for it, and...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Two Small Livestock Farmers: Different Strategies

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I follow a handful of farmers: a couple are gradually withdrawing from farming while two of the younger ones (i.e, maybe 45-50) are involved...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

USDA a "Lighthouse Agency"

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That's from this FCW piece on some GSA IT contract awards: "The awards support the first phase of work at five IT Modernization...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Drivers Monitoring Autonomous Cars

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Two points on autonomous cars: China has just authorized Baidu to run their autonomous cars on the highways.  The piece I saw noted that...

What's 700 Points on the Dow Worth

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Not a mention on the front page of either the Post or the Times.  Times have changed.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

The Search for Buttermilk and Doom for Cows

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My spouse was inspired by the recent St. Patrick's Day to bake Irish Soda Bread , for which she needed buttermilk. She checked Trader...

Deep State? Shocking

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I believe in the "deep state". There's a poll out which shows support for a theory of the "deep state" is surpri...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Teleworking and USDA

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USDA made the paper this morning for cutting back on the hours employees can telework (here's GovExec's piece ). Teleworking devel...