Bookworm on Aug 21 2008 | Filed under: Government
I received the following in an email and I thought you’d enjoy these quotes too:
“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
-Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress…. But then, I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain
I contend that [...]
Bookworm on Jun 25 2008 | Filed under: Government
Two anecdotes, and then I’ll get to my point (and the anecdotes do relate to that point):
Anecdote 1: I get my medical care from Kaiser and feel that I get great care. Within its four walls, Kaiser is an extremely efficiently run organization that takes surprisingly good care of vast numbers of people. Kaiser has [...]
Bookworm on Apr 29 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
The sign at the baseball game said “Mike’s Lemonade $7.00.” So, when Christopher Ratt asked his 7 year old son what drink he’d like, and the boy said Lemonade, Ratt ponied up the money. It was only later in the game that a security guard noticed the bottle in the boy’s hand and [...]
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 Feb 26 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Media matters
Here it is, my first day back from a long-ish vacation, and I’m not finding any blogging inspiration in today’s news. Instead, it’s exactly the same stuff that was in the news when I left: unrest in Pakistan; Hillary’s free-fall; alleged campaign shenanigans from the Hillary camp aimed at the Obama camp; Obama’s [...]
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