I've come to understand that the structure of this system produces these results even if there are no evil people in the top jobs. As a survivor of a near-fatal cancer, I'm grateful for what medical science and great clinicians continue to achieve. But I'm also keenly aware of the ...
She and more than a dozen other speakers railed against a recent Exelon-Pepco ad campaign that promised more jobs and better security for ratepayers as “lies.” “We’re told we’re going to have more jobs; we’re going to have fewer jobs,” she said. “We are told we are going to...
Athena Kan grew up watching her dad juggle his day job as an insurance actuary (精算师) with nights of studying to become an electrical inspector. As a kid, she couldn’t wrap her head around it, “I just didn’t really get it,” she says, “Like, why would he not just hire some...
During the visual inspection, your inspector will check for cracks in the septic tank baffle walls and inlet and outlet pipes. He will also look for the presence of scum and sludge, which should be no more than 30% of the tank’s total volume. When these levels get too high, your sept...
Or when an Inspector General’s report found that $9 billions was unaccounted for in Iraq spending, (about 2005), and yet the Bush administration in general, and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, head of an ‘oversight’ committee, refused to look into the matter? Or perhaps when a CIA ...