Lots of odd stories popped up this week that I alluded to in the Mexican links a few days ago with the...
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Root Cause Analysis of Civil Service Failures – Recruitment
Oft around these parts there is mention of 'The Bureaucracy' in terms comparable to those reserved for a...
RV Life Part I: How I Chose the RV Life (Or, How it Chose Me)
Here I am, sitting in front of my laptop on Vivian the Class C RV in a park in western North Carolina. How...
Before Time, the
It is said that in the before time we traveled to the white sky disc, men, in arrows of fire, hurtling at...
Pournelle v. Gramsci (or, how the Long March can be explained by other means)
Jerry Pournelle is generally credited with formulating the Iron Law of Bureaucracy. In any bureaucracy, the...
The God That Failed
The Constitution is dead. It is the God that failed. What made American Constitutional government unique was...
Self-Actualized Parenting
If you are worried this will be one of those pieces where I meander around in my head trying to be a decent...
A Republic, If You Can Keep It. Part 2
Credit to the US Army for two things in the run up to WWII. First, they figured it was very likely we would...
Musings
Yes, yes, everything is going to shit, blah blah. Same as it ever was, amirite? But this too shall...
More Random Thoughts, the Death of a Saguaro, Get Free Cocktail
We lost this massive saguaro at the Casa Dean last month. It ripped down half of the tree when it fell, and...