What Do I Know?

 [Scroll to bottom for update] Imagine having to worry that masked thugs could come to your home, your work place, your car and just drag yo...

[You'll figure out pretty quickly, I think, that I enjoyed reading this book.  I wanted to read the next chapter as soon as I finished t...

 I've got six post started from the press club.  My SF grandkids and their parents were here last week.  The world social, political, le...

Intro:  Civil Service and Merit System are terms most Americans have heard, but I'd guess that few could tell you, very accurately, wh...

I found the following passage intriguing.  And since it is bad form to copy whole passages of other books without adding value or a new cont...

That's the question raised in a book I picked up at the Elliott Bay Bookstore in Seattle during Thanksgiving. I've just started read...

Since President Elect Trump tells more lies than truths, it seems appropriate for him to have fictional cabinet members to match the fiction...

From the August 31, 2024 LA Times:  [Note the digital and facsimile editions have different titles.]   As someone who taught public administ...

A link to Capacious led me into a rabbit hole that didn't let go for several hours.  As an academic, I found the first story too real a...

This is an important interview by Brian Taylor Cohen, one of the brightest and most articulate commentators (I want to say on the air, and h...