{"id":6424,"date":"2026-09-10T11:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:55:35","slug":"truffle-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/truffle-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Truffle Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past few days, I&#8217;ve been thinking about several things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably, I&#8217;ve been thinking about government and NGO programs.  There&#8217;s always much kvetching here inside the Swamp when funding gets adjusted in a direction other than exponential growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, as I&#8217;m thinking about it, one phrase kept coming to mind, &#8220;a government program is Truffle Oil on a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where did this annoyance with Truffle Oil come from?  Not sure, but I recall Anthony Bourdain talking about it.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/2017\/4\/21\/15385752\/anthony-bourdain-truffe-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bourdain On A Talk Show<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unsurprisingly, Mr. Atlantic City, himself, Trump is all about new programs, albeit without the practically-useless NGOs should surprise no one.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gold-plate this.  Let&#8217;s make the Reflecting Pool more blue than you&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perfect Atlantic City renovation.  Throw another layer of  paint on that crappy apartment, and put it back on the market for 30% more money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Bourdain&#8217;s criticisms of Truffle Oil do fit so perfectly when you&#8217;re trying to cover up things that are really rotten to the core, but fit so well with government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Using Truffle Oil is lazy.  It&#8217;s a somewhat unusual flavor on top of not-very-good base food.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Much like government programs, Truffle Oil is stupidly-expensive.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If using Truffle Oil &#8220;fixed&#8221; one problem, using more of it will fix every problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But God forbid you ever exclude that essential Truffle Oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could probably stretch this into an OWT entry&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, I&#8217;ve been thinking about several things. Notably, I&#8217;ve been thinking about government and NGO programs. There&#8217;s always much kvetching here inside the Swamp when funding gets adjusted in a direction other than exponential growth. But, as I&#8217;m thinking about it, one phrase kept coming to mind, &#8220;a government program is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}