A Database of Folly — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2012/07/03/a-database-of-folly
The fact is, Congress isn’t interested in availing itself of your wisdom any more than the sausagemaker needs your help tidying the floor. Lawmaking is The Wire, not Schoolhouse Rock. It’s about blood and war and power, not evidence and argument and policy.