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, May 08, 2023

Aging: Learning, Forgetting, Mismatching

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 Had to wait at the self-service checkout for the clerk to help another old man, who complained that he had so many cards--I guess he hadn...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

The Ending of Government Mental Institutions

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 Some discussion on twitter about the ending of government mental institutions, the deinstitutonalization  movement.  Apparently some believ...
Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Will, Ford, and Pardons

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 George Will's newest column is a review of a new biography of Gerald Ford.  I don't know what Will thought of Nixon and Ford in t...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

How Soon I Forget--Debt Ceiling

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 Discussing the debt ceiling issue this morning I had completely forgotten that prior negotiations had included a "temporary suspension...
Monday, May 01, 2023

Born Round

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 Just read Frank Bruni's memoir on food and his other loves.  One point of his interest--he goes to Italy as the NYTimes correspondent...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Tyler Vs Hennepin

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 George Will wrote about this case, as did Somin in Powerline and Tottenburg at NPR. If I understand Tyler owned a condo, she left for ass...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Biden's In

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 I'll vote for him.  What I really want, and won't get, is a victory wide and deep enough to include Democratic gains in the House, ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Slavery Everywhere?

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 Americans, some of us, know that slavery was part of our history from 1619 to the Civil War.  We're less knowledgable about the slavery...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

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 Those terms are the mantra for conservatives attacking the size of government, and those who believe it's possible to reduce the defici...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Surprising Defection from TFG on Right

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 Given Powerline Blog's support of TFG over the years, even going so far to oust one of its bloggers for insufficient loyalty (Paul Mire...
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