Moon Shadows

Trevor Butterworth's most-recent Forbes column is an especially good read.  Here's a nice passage:

An idea or plan is useless if it can't be executed, reviewed and adjusted. Where government differs from a business is that Congress is not all working toward the same goal, which means that getting laws passed is often more important than getting laws that work passed. Maligned federal agencies are simply instructed to build out legislation as an architectural firm might be asked to build a...