Month: January 2006

This Cafe Closed; New Pink Cafe Open!

Come on into the Pink! Newcomers welcome! This is an Unhosted Cafe. Coffee & Tea under the window.Goodies on the platters. Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door Please recommend (and unrecommend the...

Read More

Who You Gonna Call?

Gadfly is Marty Aussenberg, a columnist for the weekly Memphis Flyer. Marty is a former SEC enforcement official, currently in private law practice in Memphis, Tennessee. (A full bio is below the fold.) Cross-posted at The...

Read More

Civil Service and the Spoils System

Once the US federal government got large enough to need a force of employees the issue arose of how to fill these offices. Starting with Andrew Jackson the practice became one of handing out positions to political allies....

Read More

Good morning Senator, welcome to a new dawn.

As your staff has probably already alerted you, your office has been barraged by e-mails, faxes and phone messages imploring you to either vote no or abstain on the upcoming cloture vote in the Alito confirmation. I realize that...

Read More