Since political hacks are inclined to take credit for the sun coming up every day, I will be the first to declare victory in my ongoing campaign against the USDA Graduate School.  An alert reader (holy crap! I have readers?) points me to this little passage in HR 6124 which became law in June.
`(B) TERMINATION [...]

About a year and a half ago, I posted on the ridiculousness that is the Graduate School, USDA.
[S]urely education initiatives would fall squarely under the Department of Education, right?  After all, the department name kind of makes that obvious, doesn’t it?
Not to the guys at the Department of Agriculture, apparently.  They operate the USDA Graduate [...]

Having spent yesterday trying to get my car registered and me licensed in Virginia, I actually missed the bloated inefficiency of the federal government.  There is something refreshing about interacting with a level of government that is inefficient due to its own ineptness that really draws attention to the fact that the fed is at least [...]

A while back I posted about the USDA Graduate School.  The general point to the post was a generic quandary I have always had about government and the fact that they engage in activities that have no compelling national interest.  The USDA grad program is one of my favorite examples of that.
So four months go [...]

Well, it seems I am not alone in questioning the decision to charge forward on a gay marriage amendment at this time.  My earlier post was echoed by Governor Whitman on the It’s My Party Too blog.  In addition, At least two republican Senators have publicly stated their opposition to the amendment.
Senators Olympia Snowe and [...]