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The ultimate bureaucracy

Bookworm on Nov 25 2007 | Filed under: Economics, Europe

I’ve disliked the EU ever since, in a moment of absolute insanity, I took a class on EU law when I was in law school. It was a Kafka-esque nightmare — and that was just studying about it, not experiencing it.
If you want some small insight into experiencing it, read this Spiegel article that [...]

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How government works

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. [...]

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