Every so often there'll be a media story revealing some gross abuse of public resources by government personnel: say, management at a given federal agency who are using a startling percentage of their government work time to look at Internet pornography on government computers -- that sort of thing. Everyone gets outraged for a day then we forget all about it.
The ultimate government resource, much more so than time or computers, is power, especially the power to coerce and punish. So ...
Published on January 27, 2011 21:29