WHY COLLEGE EDUCATION FAILS: "In the same time period [1975-2008] the total number of administrators rose 221 percent, from 3,800 to 12,183." Follow the link for details.

A BRIEF HISTORY of the U.S. Federal Government and Innovation: From World War I through World War II (1917 – 1945).

I posted Part I here. I'm hoping for a Part III picking up in 1945, since my own areas of professional expertise (communications technology and radar) have their origins -- at least of interest to me -- in the immediate post-WWII period.

WHOLE FOODS, half wits.

OOPS! 'Carmageddon' fails. As predicted.

More here: "Our public officials are increasingly more interested in lifestyle hectoring than in actually doing their jobs."

WHICH PRESIDENT is Barack Obama most like? I had a hard time choosing between Jimmy Carter and Zaphod Beeblebrox.

From the comments, I would judge that Obama is in a class by himself ....