The Skeptical Bureaucrat

For the second time this summer , the State Department may have gotten a bite on the bait it sets out in the Narcotics Reward Program . Ass...

The New York Times has a brief item today in which General Raymond Odierno, the departing commander of American forces in Iraq, reflects on...

Here's a question for any David Bowie fans out there. Doesn't Julian Assange look a lot like The Thin White Duke , David Bowie's...

As many, many, commentators have pointed out, the U.S. military has more musicians than the U.S. State Department has Foreign Service Office...

I was thinking some more about that solicitation for Ebonics linguists that was in the news yesterday, and it occurred to me that DEA agent...

It only took 30 years for what had been a cheap laugh in the 1980 farce Airplane! to become a deadpan contracting action. Yes, the U.S. gov...

Carr the Floorwalker said that. At least, I think he did. Carr laid down a lot of rules real fast (they are rendered a bit more musically h...