State of the Duchy

It doesn't look good. There are still 16 villages without a peasant. The IDEA says she's having trouble finding peasants when they are paid so little and they'll have to provide their own begging bowl. We're told that the Duchy has done "strategic planning". If they planned this, why aren't they in jail? Surely planning this bad is against the law? Let's recap. They sent the book budgets to the villages to provide more site-based control to the village headmen. Without allowing any planning or training, the villages have been having some trouble dealing with this budget. It's the old comedy. The car is careening toward the cliff. The driver pulls the steering wheel off and hands it to the passenger, saying "Here, you steer." The least they could do is stop the car before they yank off the steering wheel! They cut Navy and Pink from Dotland saying that all of Dotland's services could be provided by the merchants, the Grand Union, and the venerable LOC. The merchants are saying "Who, us?" Some of the villages can't talk to the Grand Union. TiTS was also cut so they can't fix the Grand Union. They could ask Folly for help but that was cut too. And the LOC, well, if the LOC had records for all of OUR books and actually had appropriate Dewey numbers and didn't make mistakes and we could reliably download more than one record at a time, maybe. GoG, the head librarian of the massive Library of Misinformation, Disinformation, Fallacy, Error, and Downright Lies, chairwoman of the Web Nonsense committee and a leader of the Suppressing Useful Information Taskforce, has once again been erupting with misinformation and disinformation, mostly about Destiny. DYBITS!!!! We won't go into the rest of her errors. Do none of these strategic planners check ANYTHING?! Quite frankly, your faithful correspondent has seen this kind of behavior in the corporate world as well. It normally preceded the announcement that the corporate management had mysteriously vanished with the corporate assets. Have a good weekend, dear readers. I'm going to go sulk ...and possibly drink.