Posts By Ed Albetski

Are You Ready for some Football?

Welcome back to the Gov Loop NFL Pool for the 2011-2012 season! No buy-in, no pay-out, no money involved, just bragging rights for the week and a beautiful travel mug prize for most correct picks over the season. Download the weekly pool sheet in the NFL POOL Discussion in The Break Room group, put anRead… Read more »

Keeping Busy in Retirement

One thing I’ve been doing to keep busy is acting in independent films. Ten Sundays has asked me to be their pitchman for a promotional clip to help raise funds for their latest project. I’ m not exactly Billy Mays, but see what you think. Anyone want to be an associate producer <grin>?

A Modestly Proposed Replacement for the Primary Process

Retirement has given me time to muse and think about things and processes in a more dispassionate manner. The hugest farce we all have to endure is the political primary season leading up to the general election for President. The posturing, the posing, the empty and sometimes frightening political rhetoric, and above all the wasteRead… Read more »

Stop Trying To Be A Leader If You Are Not!

Some folks were meant to take the oath of office. Some were meant to say: “Do you want fries with that?” They are NOT interchangeable. Do you have new hires at your agency come in trying to take charge? With all the focus in colleges on “leadership” we have been getting a few twenty-somethings comingRead… Read more »