Sausage making

Last Friday the Times ran an obit for Dr. Alan Rosenthal, who was credited with improving state legislatures.   

You may have heard the old saying that you don’t want to observe either sausage making or legislative politics.  

After watching the Ohio legislature, Dr. Rosenthal decided to examine the metaphor of legislative sausage making more closely, so he visited a sausage factory.  He found that, compared to state legislative politics, sausage making was more efficient and more collaborative--and cleaner.  Check out <http://www.apsanet.org/~lss/Newsletter/Jan02/sausage.htm>.