• Regular readers of the Round Up (that’s a mouthful) know that we are big fans of the FCPA Professor and his blog of the same name. What you may not know is that he is an actual professor at Butler. While no one here in Round Up headquarters has a horse left in the tournament, we are still amazed at how unproductive March has been. We don’t want to get him in trouble, so keep this between us, but apparently at least one Butler faithful has been able to focus on something other than basketball.
  • In case you were wondering what dictators are good for …
  • I remember the first time my father gave me the keys to the family car. “Wear your seat belt, drive slowly, and don’t leave the car running. It could slip out of park and roll away.” Well, I didn’t wear my seatbelt until they started making cars with the constant beeping, I didn’t slow down until they put up more speed cameras than I could keep track of, and I’ll keep the engine warm until we run out of oil. What’s that you say? We only have 50 years of oil left? Oh, sorry.
  • 1 in 3 DoD weapons programs have cost overruns of as much as 50%; 0 in 3 people are surprised.