Archive for October, 2005

Budget-cutting at U of M: trimming the fat

Friday, October 28th, 2005

from an email message I received today: “M-Stores will eliminate its custom meat-cutting service and will make additional staff reductions in other parts of the organization in order to increase efficiency.”

My next monitor

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

I think I’ll need to take up a collection for this.

So there was a plan for Iraq…

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

This is a very interesting article about what went wrong in Iraq. It argues quite convincingly that the argument that there was no plan for the aftermath of invading that country is wrong. There was, instead, a plan of devastating consistency, although it didn’t work out quite as planned. I can only hope that this [...]