What Do I Know?

INTRO:   Part I is here.   If you find this topic dry and hard to get your head around, then you are half way there.  Because some of the ...

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...

[Overview:  The key here is the video.  Find 30 minutes to watch/listen.  It puts lots of important things into place.  The rest of the post...

There's a coup happening in DC.  There's no other way to describe it.  The president is nominating and the Senate is approving candi...

I learned today that Jeremy Lansman, a very complex, intelligent man with many talents, and not a few loose ends untied, passed away on Dece...

 Jacob poetically deplored all the bad news in a comment to the last post.   So here's something entirely different. I'm reading a...

We're back in Anchorage.  As we went to the airport in the late afternoon Friday, there seemed to be a lot less smoke blowing from the P...

 It was very foggy several days ago, from what I could tell, mostly within three or four miles of the coast.   So, this afternoon, as we wer...