Because Democracy is Not Free — we all have to work at it
I’ve been accused of drinking the Obama Kool-Aid, to which I reply, “guilty as charged.” I grew up with two different spheres of influence. My formal education said that our goal in life should be to make our country a better place through advocacy of an open and people-run government. My nuclear (Asian) family said [...]
One of the added benefits of having your own website is this: You get inside information delivered to you by virtue of searches conducted on keyword. Based on this principle, Google’s philantropic arm has a site called Google Flu Trends, which can predict flu outbreaks up to two weeks before the Center For Disease Control (CDC). [...]
Poor Robert MacLean. His whistleblower case takes the cake. According to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), we don’t need courts at all — facts can be changed, after the fact. So what’s the point? The employee will always be wrong. Sorta. That is, if you actually insist that facts don’t change, you’ll be treated [...]
Woo-hoo! I got my Christmas present early today. I bought a copy of Mr. Deck of Cards’ testimony transcribed. It’s great! Especially the parts where I ask pertinent and salient questions, and Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) AJ LuNell Anderson immediately tries to stop the witness from testifying. After I get some of my other [...]
I swear you can’t make this stuff up! On page 32 of this pdf, the Department of Labor specifically states that impairment of the brain, heart or back is excluded from the Federal Employee Compensation Act (FECA) schedule award. With federal employees, you can’t have impairment of the brain, heart or spine if you don’t [...]
This week, I spoke with a familiar and dear friend, Attorney Mary Dryovage. We chatted a bit, discussed the status of her writ of certiorati, exchanged tales about cruel agency attorneys and said our goodbyes. Mary represented me at the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) back in 2005. I later exchanged a few emails with [...]
It’s official. I got the court order today. Our Judicial Branch doesn’t think that you can simply retire people and absolve yourself of blame. Hooray for real courts and real judges. Still, that doesn’t stop the most surreal comments from the DOL peanut gallery. According to counsel Andrew Schultz — and I’m paraphrasing here — [...]
Just a quick update everyone. First, thank you to everyone who made donations. Currently, we have slightly less than a $100 balance, but our new domain name is paid through 2012. Now, as to what is happening for the transition itself — I have three individuals that have demonstrated a keen intellect and good writing [...]
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One wonders if I was perhaps too harsh in criticizing Supreme Court Justice and dishwasher afficionado Clarence Thomas. After all — in case you were unaware — he’s black. So to make this fair, I’m including this lovely snippet on Thomas’ colleague, Antonin Scalia. Yesterday, seven of the supreme court justices invoked a rarely used [...]