Bookworm on May 12 2008 | Filed under: Bureaucracy
This tidbit showed up in today’s paper:
Adding an extra dollar to peak-hour commutes across the Golden Gate Bridge is supposed to make the trip faster by discouraging people from crossing at the busiest times.
So bridge officials were a little befuddled when, in the days leading up to hatching the new plan, federal transportation wonks weighed [...]
Bookworm on Apr 11 2008 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, England
My mother-in-law’s parents died in Auschwitz. She wasn’t around for that horror because her parents, in a tremendous (and prescient) sacrifice, boarded her onto the Kindertransport, which took young children out of Nazi countries. As with my mother-in-law, most of these children never saw their parents again. Because the fact that she had to flee [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Crime and punishment, Police
I blogged yesterday about law enforcement run amok, in connection with the decision to prosecute a mother who left a sleeping child in the car, while she walked a few feet away — something every mother in the world has done. As you may recall, I was quite heated in expounding upon the idiocy [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Bureaucracy
I blogged here about the risk of vesting too much power in petty bureaucracies. Rhymes with Right has a really awful story about a single petty tyrant vested with too much power.
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Bookworm on Feb 27 2008 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, San Francisco
In several posts over the last few days, I’ve commented about Disney efficiency. Thousands of people are fairly painlessly shuffled from place to place; Fast Passes are a think of beauty, especially if individuals handle them well; everything is immaculately clean, including the overused bathrooms; the equipment functions superbly well considering the demands made upon [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2007 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Government, San Francisco
I grew up in San Francisco, and always found the intersection at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard frustrating and nerve wracking. Sloat runs east/west and 19th Avenue runs north/south. If you’re heading south on 19th Avenue, and want to make a left turn onto Sloat (heading east), there is a left turn signal. [...]
Bookworm on Aug 24 2007 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Education, Europe, Law
Don Quixote will correct me if I’m wrong, but I think one of the core things about being a libertarian is that you don’t try to control people’s conduct, but you do step in if they break certain clearly stated rules. Indeed, you don’t need to be a libertarian to have that view. [...]
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