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.

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

October Is Coming: the 50th Anniversary

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 The Watergate book I'm reading starts one chapter with the observation: "October 1973 would prove to be perhaps the most historic ...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Watergate

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 In the process of reading Garrett Graff's Watergate.  It's a reminder of how we simplify our history--many reporters involved other...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Why Do LIberal Reforms Hurt the Poor?

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 Is this true? Liberals propose and enact more laws, regulations, and programs than conservatives?   The poorer the citizen the more difficu...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Farm Bill and Debt Limit

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 The cynic in me applauds President Biden's tactic of inviting a bipartisan delegation to the White House to discuss the new farm bill. ...
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Apollo 11--Apogee of White America?

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 Watched the documentary film Apollo 11 l ast night. Seeing it 54 years after the original offered a certain perspective, not to mention col...
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...
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