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Mark Maynard - wall to wall brownies

"Last week, Paul Krugman had a great column entitled “Find the Brownie.” In it, he suggested that we make a game of ferreting out Bush appointees, like Mike “Brownie” Brown at FEMA, “whose only apparent qualifications for that job are political loyalty and personal connections,” people who were potentially putting us all in danger.

Even though the article was behind the impenetrable wall of Times Select the article still made a pretty big mark on the Blogosphere, even leading to the creation of a Find the Brownie site, where whistleblowers could leave tips. Now, in the same spirit, The New Republic has a great piece on the “hackocracy” that’s flourishing under Bush."