Kolkata Watching the efforts to dismantle the federal government agency by agency is pretty amazing. The fact that some are starting to push back on unilateral orders by co-president Elon Musk, is encouraging, but not yet reassuring. Some are going one way as the Office of Personnel Management makes some orders “voluntary,” rather than …
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America, the Bully-ful
New Orleans The standard line for dealing with a bully is a weird psychodrama where we assume they are really insecure cowards and our course of action is to stand up to them and slap back. With or without empirical evidence, that’s the advice we have often taken to heart personally and advised …
Thug Life, Elon Musk Style
New Orleans It’s not hard to follow the tactics of Elon Musk and his gang at the make-believe, unauthorized, so-called Department of Governmental Efficiency or DOGE, where he is without doubt the top dog. We’ve seen it all before. If you’ve watched any crime procedural on Netflix, Prime, or HBO, you’ve seen one …