Faceless Bureaucrat

 A long piece on the decline in vertical farming. I think my past posts reflect skepticism about it.  I don't think it will work until fusion is a viable source of energy.

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/06/vertical-farming-crash.html

 The fewer posts I put up, the more views I get.   I will never understand humans. 

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/06/what-hell-is-this.html

 "Thin skin" is a metaphor meaning sensitivity to critical comments/insults, etc. I'd argue that with age I've become less sensitive to criticism than I used to be, although I'm far from insen...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/06/im-thin-skinned.html

 I found this piece on an obscure and unsuccessful (for US)WWII fighter plane to be very interesting.  It seems that while it was a failure in the Pacific for us, it worked for the Finns. Rai...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-pilot-makes-machine.html

 Nearing the end of the Watergate book, which now recounts the briefing of the House Judiciary Committee by the special prosecutor and his staff, some 7500 pages of evidence.   According to ...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/06/watergare-ii-disregard-of-law.html

 The Watergate book I'm reading starts one chapter with the observation: "October 1973 would prove to be perhaps the most historic month in the history of the American presidency..." A remind...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/05/october-is-coming-50th-anniversary.html

 In the process of reading Garrett Graff's Watergate.  It's a reminder of how we simplify our history--many reporters involved other than Woodward and Bernstein.

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/05/watergate.html

 Is this true? Liberals propose and enact more laws, regulations, and programs than conservatives?   The poorer the citizen the more difficulty they have in knowing, understanding, complyi...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/05/why-do-liberal-reforms-hurt-poor.html

 The cynic in me applauds President Biden's tactic of inviting a bipartisan delegation to the White House to discuss the new farm bill.  Why am I cynical?  While negotiations over farm bill pr...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/05/farm-bill-and-debt-limit.html

 Watched the documentary film Apollo 11 l ast night. Seeing it 54 years after the original offered a certain perspective, not to mention color and clarity. Couldn't help noticing the almost 10...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/05/apollo-11-apogee-of-white-america.html

 Had to wait at the self-service checkout for the clerk to help another old man, who complained that he had so many cards--I guess he hadn't used the right number for his Safeway loyaltt account...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/05/aging-learning-forgetting-mismatching.html

 Some discussion on twitter about the ending of government mental institutions, the deinstitutonalization  movement.  Apparently some believe that President Reagan was responsible, only to be ...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-ending-of-government-mental.html

 George Will's newest column is a review of a new biography of Gerald Ford.  I don't know what Will thought of Nixon and Ford in the 1970s, but today he likes Ford and likes his pardon of Nixo...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/05/will-ford-and-pardons.html

 Discussing the debt ceiling issue this morning I had completely forgotten that prior negotiations had included a "temporary suspension" of the ceiling in order to have more time to negotiate.

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/05/how-soon-i-forget-debt-ceiling.html

 Just read Frank Bruni's memoir on food and his other loves.  One point of his interest--he goes to Italy as the NYTimes correspondent soon after reaching a turning point in his food obsessi...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/05/born-round.html

 George Will wrote about this case, as did Somin in Powerline and Tottenburg at NPR. If I understand Tyler owned a condo, she left for assisted living and apparently left the condo unoccupie...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/tyler-vs-hennepin.html

 I'll vote for him.  What I really want, and won't get, is a victory wide and deep enough to include Democratic gains in the House, the Senate, and state legislatures.

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/bidens-in.html

 Americans, some of us, know that slavery was part of our history from 1619 to the Civil War.  We're less knowledgable about the slavery in the Caribbean and South America.  I'd have to use Go...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/slavery-everywhere.html

 Those terms are the mantra for conservatives attacking the size of government, and those who believe it's possible to reduce the deficit without cutting programs. As a liberal and retired bur...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/fraud-waste-and-abuse.html

 Given Powerline Blog's support of TFG over the years, even going so far to oust one of its bloggers for insufficient loyalty (Paul Mirengoff), I never expected to see this post from John Hinde...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/surprising-defection-from-tfg-on-right.html

 See Farrell  at Crooked Timber has a discussion of the "Knowledge Problem ". If I understand, it's the argument that market prices encapsulate a lot of information and provide a key basis for...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/knowledge-problem.html

 The Times has a piece on remote work, describing some research and a categorization done by a social scientist.  Attitudes fall into four categories: resistor--high level types who go their...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/resistance-to-remote-work.html

ProPublica reported this: > In 2014, one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies > purchased a string of properties on a quiet residential street in > Savannah, Geor...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-crow-and-heirs-property.html

 Kevin Drum and many others don't understand how a National Guard member could have access to the sort of information which was leaked. I think part of it is the pathology of distribution list...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/on-distribution-lists.html

 Big explosion at a dairy in Texas Monday, with estimates of the number of cows killed at 18,000! Don't know the cause of the explosion--possibly methana from manure would be a guess.   Ca...

https://facelessbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-large-dairy-poor-cows.html