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Sketch from Kurt Tucholsky's Waste book. A waste book was one of the books traditionally used in bookkeeping.It consisted of a daily diary of all transactions in chronological order. [1]
On December 12, 2010, Senator Coburn released the first report entitled "Wastebook 2010: A Guide to Some of the Most Wasteful Government Spending of 2010.” [24] On October 16, 2012, Wastebook 2012 was released [25] listing 100 instances in which over spending is claimed (note the table of contents only lists 10). The Robosquirrel project is ...
According to Wastebook, there's plenty of waste to go around with the federal government spending $82 billion on IT each year, and a recent GAO report noting that three agencies have spent $321 ...
Coburn's Wastebook has described projects and experiments funded by the NSF with colorful phrases like "gambling monkeys" and "mountain lions on a treadmill". Scientists charge that Coburn's descriptions lack "nuance" or are outright misleading, by inadequately describing, omitting, or misrepresenting their scientific value.
According to Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn's Wastebook 2010, Nardi received a $100,000 grant to "analyze and understand the ways in which players of World of Warcraft, a popular multiplayer game, engage in creative collaboration". In Coburn's list of 100 supposedly-wasteful federal spending projects, Nardi's project came in at number 6, with ...
Jeffry Lane Flake [1] (born December 31, 1962) is an American politician and diplomat who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and later as the U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 2022 to 2024.
A sterilization Coburn performed on a 20-year-old woman, Angela Plummer, in 1990, became what was called "the most incendiary issue" of his Senate campaign. [28] Coburn performed the sterilization on the woman during an emergency surgery to treat a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, removing her healthy intact fallopian tube as well as the one damaged by the surgery.
Aphorisms from the wastebook (1803–1806), Independent Journal of Philosophy 3, 1979; Who thinks abstractly? (1807–1808), in Walter Kaufmann's Hegel: Reinterpretation, Texts and Commentary, pp. 461–465. Available online: German text, English text