…elegantly proportioned in the unspeakable Steve Pearce. What a guy!
Author: Michael O'Hare
Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, Michael O'Hare was raised in New York City and trained at Harvard as an architect and structural engineer. Diverted from an honest career designing buildings by the offer of a job in which he could think about anything he wanted to and spend his time with very smart and curious young people, he fell among economists and such like, and continues to benefit from their generosity with on-the-job social science training. He has followed the process and principles of design into "nonphysical environments" such as production processes in organizations, regulation, and information management and published a variety of research in environmental policy, government policy towards the arts, and management, with special interests in energy, facility siting, information and perceptions in public choice and work environments, and policy design. His current research is focused on transportation biofuels and their effects on global land use, food security, and international trade; regulatory policy in the face of scientific uncertainty; and, after a three-decade hiatus, on NIMBY conflicts afflicting high speed rail right-of-way and nuclear waste disposal sites. He is also a regular writer on pedagogy, especially teaching in professional education, and co-edited the "Curriculum and Case Notes" section of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Between faculty appointments at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, he was director of policy analysis at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. He has had visiting appointments at Università Bocconi in Milan and the National University of Singapore and teaches regularly in the Goldman School's executive (mid-career) programs. At GSPP, O'Hare has taught a studio course in Program and Policy Design, Arts and Cultural Policy, Public Management, the pedagogy course for graduate student instructors, Quantitative Methods, Environmental Policy, and the introduction to public policy for its undergraduate minor, which he supervises. Generally, he considers himself the school's resident expert in any subject in which there is no such thing as real expertise (a recent project concerned the governance and design of California county fairs), but is secure in the distinction of being the only faculty member with a metal lathe in his basement and a 4×5 Ebony view camera. At the moment, he would rather be making something with his hands than writing this blurb. View all posts by Michael O'Hare
Steve the Lionheart is as tireless an investigator as he is fearless. Apparently he went out for lunch and to a tourist attraction, plus he was there for a whole weekend. Also, the honor bar in his room didn't have peanut M&M's, so that's a pretty comprehensive investigation undertaken under difficult circumstances.
Dear Lord in Your Heaven, I beg your indulgence to answer one crucial question. In Your Omniscience, You are aware that your humble servant has departed Congressman Pearce's District to reside in Speaker Boehner's District. Your humble servant is well aware from experience precisely what a piece of work the Honorable Gentleman from Roswell is. Your humble servant is also well aware from reading that the Honorable Speaker from Cincinnati is perhaps the least effective Speaker in the history of the known Universe.
And thus, to Your servant's question. Which of these two chucklenuts is the worst, and should Your servant change his registration to Ohio before November or vote one last time in the Land of Enchantment by absentee ballot?