Profit and Loss

Being asked what you could do less of is an invitation to a rant. It's the sort of thing made for a slow news cycle when nothing else is there to fill the airwaves, expend newsprint on, or appear in your spam folder. It's the sort of stuff that, on the coast, the old maiden …

I’ve got a quarrel…

I have a grudge against multi-level interlocked bureaucracy. You might think, "He's talking about government!" But no, it's not just a government issue. I quarrel with it, whether in the private sector or the government. However, my experiences with it were when I worked for the government. In the little out-of-the-way part of the government …

Corrupt

Warren Buffett once famously said, "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

POV

I had problems as a government functionary. Lurking just beneath the surface was my satirical and absurdist take on things.

Pilgrim

The latter-day revival of my woodcarving business began with the Clinton/Gore Reinvention of Government.

Carefully

Careful is not a word in the official governmental vocabulary. Procedural is.