It's not quite accurate to say that bureaucrats will do anything to protect budgets, as the relationship between turf, autonomy, resources, and organizational behavior is complex. Nevertheless, as a general first guess it's usually not wrong to believe that bureaucrats will significantly stretch reality in...
Month: February 2013
Marty Peretz is very, very upset that the New Republic is now owned by a non-crackpot: Like many readers of the New Republic, I didn't at first recognize the most.
And, look, if you're secular it's no more commercialized or less arbitrary than any other holiday. So have fun with the love letters of Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson: See.
You know who had the worst Valentine's Day in history? Theodore Roosevelt. The second worst Valentine's Day might go to the entire Bolivian nation.
I have a second Diplomat piece this week, this time on the ongoing troubles with the F-35: Perhaps more importantly, rules of engagement are inherently political. Civilian leaders, and their politically.
Ronald Dworkin has died. This incident reminded me of the following story: A few years ago Dworkin wrote a remembrance of Learned Hand, for whom Dworkin clerked. At the time.
I'm perhaps a bit less sanguine than Andrew Smith about the issues underlying Vulcan's offer to Seattle described here: The Seattle City Council has quietly shelved a proposal that would let Vulcan, Paul Allen’s real-estate firm, build a trio of 24-story towers near Lake Union...
So I found this Doug Fine piece on keeping cannabis production out of corporate hands a little frustrating. Fine's basic argument is that with the increased likelihood of legalized marijuana.
Yglesisas notes that fast-food stocks took a beating today after Obama came out in favor of higher minimum wage indexed to inflation. Doesn't this present a substantial opportunity for those.
Danger Room has convened a symposium re-evaluating Imperial strategy and military performance at the Battle of Hoth. My own contribution was simply a translation (with the assistance of former Patterson School student Patrick Davey) of the evaluation of Captain Giage Gentis, professor of military history...
Well, this is an issue: An MRI on Kentucky Wildcats forward Nerlens Noel revealed he tore the ACL in his left knee and will miss the remainder of the season..
He voted against the VAWA. And, needless to say, his pretext for voting against it is a really terrible reason in its own right. It also seems worth noting that.