Hark!\u00a0 Listen!\u00a0 Do you hear it?\u00a0 Commuter song rings through the bus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I hear the sweet-cynical laughing\u00a0chitter-chatter of jovial workers traveling to the Federal mines, endless warrens of office after office after office, sunless caves they burrow into day after day.\u00a0\u00a0In the dark recesses,\u00a0word-mining\u00a0functionaries\u00a0hammer, chip, pick, blast, searching for veins of bureaucratic ore, hoping and striving\u00a0to extract nuggets, spoonfulls even, of precious government jewels, shining policies, procedures, and pronouncements, regulatory treasure\u00a0to last\u00a0a lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hark!\u00a0 Listen!\u00a0 Do you hear it?\u00a0 Commuter song rings through the bus.\u00a0 I hear the sweet-cynical laughing\u00a0chitter-chatter of jovial workers traveling to the Federal mines, endless warrens of office after office after office, sunless caves they burrow into day after … Continue reading