re: "@ Wikileaks"

O at The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat ("The Optimist says: "The Glass is Half Full." The Pessimist says: "The Glass is Half Empty." The Bureaucrat says: "What we need are 5 glasses, 1/10th the size." The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat says: "Where's my damned bourbon?" ") clears up some confusion.

Money quote(s):

"(T)he folks at Wikileaks have published a metric assload of Department of State dispatches and communiques, detailing everything from a future reunification plan for the Koreas to Col. Gaddafi's fear of upper floors. It's a fascinating little peak into a world of diplomacy that most U.S. citizens never really come in contact with."

Be sure to read his "confession."

re: "A Bureaucrat's Aside re: Politics"

O at The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat ("The Optimist says: "The Glass is Half Full." The Pessimist says: "The Glass is Half Empty." The Bureaucrat says: "What we need are 5 glasses, 1/10th the size." The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat says: "Where's my damned Bourbon?"") shared an insight which stands as the cornerstone of any decent public servant:

"(M)y bureaucratic mentor the One-Eyed Fat Man, when faced with the milquetoast-eries of the upper management of the Federal Government, was fond of saying that he held no political allegiances and that his boss was the U.S. Constitution."