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.

Sunday, August 14, 2022

Fraud and Telehealth

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 I'm with Doggett on the problem of fraud possibly being enabled by telehealth. I've been bothered by TV ads I see for various devic...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Thoughts on Secrecy

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 A couple random thoughts.  The former guy and some of his defenders claim he declassified documents even though (presumably) the bureaucrat...
Friday, August 12, 2022

87,000 IRS Agents

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I've reservations about the Democratic spin on the "87,000 agents" in IRA, as described here , specifically the idea that the ...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Asking Questions

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 Finished Sec. Esper's book . One point I think worthy of commenting.  Esper, along with Gen. Milley, found the former guy to be very e...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Changing Times--Reversals of Roles

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 Live long enough and you might find white becomes black and black white.  That's an oversimplification, but it applies this week. When ...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

The Role of Women

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 Reading Ian Morris Geography Is Destiny . His subject is Britain and geography over 10,000 years. An interesting point he makes is in the d...

The Search Warrant

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 My current bottom line is nobody knows nothing. So why waste bits writing about it? 
Monday, August 08, 2022

Inflation Reduction Act and Agriculture

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 As is usual to get big bills passed, there's everything in the IRA except the kitchen sink.  The logic is classic log-rolling, everyone...
Sunday, August 07, 2022

Three Bucks

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 I may have mentioned the growing presence of deer around our townhouse.  Over the years it's changed from a single deer occasionally, t...
Saturday, August 06, 2022

Cherry Shaking

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 I learned this term, "cherry shaking", along with "pitters" in a news article today.  Michigan sour cherry growers are ...
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