Indeed, turf-consciousness spreads throughout the many domestic agencies that should play some part in intelligence-collection: witness the lousy sharing of information about the September 11th hijackers between the FBI, the Immigration and Naturalisation Service and local cops.
Why bother filing at all? Everything we know about the workplace suggests that few if any knowledge workers ever refer to documents again once they have filed them away, which should come as no surprise, since paper is a lousy way to archive information.
The time has come, he said, to fix a problem that has not been addressed in some 15 years: Computers are lousy at organizing our information; the antiquated system of sorting documents into folders and trying to maintain order has fallen apart.
That may produce an even deeper level of inequality across states, with some politicians and government officials making good decisions based on evidence and others making lousy choices based on bad information.
With all the media coverage of this campaign (even if it's been lousy), and all of the information available for people on the Internet, there not only is no excuse for not knowing the facts the mainstream media isn't reporting about McCain, Palin and the Republicans, I would argue that most voters do, in fact, get the gist of what's going on.
The military dictatorship kept a tight noose around the flow of information; there was a single, lousy television channel, which came on late in the evening and broadcast mostly American soaps and dramas.
Two hospital workers became ill, although initial tests for MERS proved negative.Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, has done a lousy job at both containing and (until recently) sharing much information about MERS.
Alongside that work stands the practice of journalism — the bouncy flights, the lousy hotel rooms, the thrills and the humiliations of piecing together information and writing too fast, and occasionally, the loss of friends and colleagues in war zones.
"It's lousy, lousy, lousy," Pucher said.
