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Federal Disability Retirement under FERS/CSRS: Of bad people

Posted onSeptember 13, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is there any good in people, anymore? Is it even relevant to distinguish between “good” and “bad”? Yes, yes – I know; it is a devious thing to entitle a piece with one concept, then begin the discussion by embracing its antonym – a device often used by newspapers, periodicals, and short story writers of the dubious set and genre of unfashionable alternatives. But more to the point: in a universe and culture where moral judgments are no longer acceptable, and where equivalence of distinctions have been concretized except by religious zealots and society’s cultish outcasts, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal & Postal Employees: Fear Untethered

Posted onFebruary 29, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is of evolutionary advantage for a healthy dose to allow; what amount, whether it can be quantified, and to what extent instinct should be restrained before intersecting rage and reactive violence meet, is a question, a puzzle and a conundrum. An animal in fear is both broken and dangerous, and the corollary of the two sides of a singular coin reveals the thin line between innate survival instincts which we attempt to linguistically describe, but are at a disadvantage precisely because words are ultimately inadequate in reflecting reality. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: The Hangman’s Knot

Posted onFebruary 27, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The perfect knot is the most effective, and development of its features occurred over time through a science of art and an artistic employment of science. The placement of the knot behind which ear; the number of coils before they became an impediment; and the avoidance, at all costs, of trespassing upon superstitious beliefs and potentially supernatural reverberations — these were all taken into account in perfecting the science of the art. Its corollary, the art of the science, disregarded the efficacy of the knot; it was only the former which concerned itself with an objective evaluation of the results after each occurrence. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The U.S. Department of Health & Human Sacrifice

Posted onFebruary 26, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Does modernity reflect progress? And, more to the point, by whose definition do we apply the standard of “progress”? Does mere movement or change constitute advancement, or do we fool ourselves by the proverbial content of shuffling the chairs on the deck of a sinking ship? Each generation believes fervently that the previous one represents an archaic mode of static thought and stale fashions, and that youth itself somehow supersedes the necessity for any generational transfer of wisdom or insight. […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal & Postal Employees: Fear Untethered

OPM Disability Retirement: The U.S. Department of Health & Human Sacrifice

OPM Disability Retirement Application: Starting with Basics

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Objectivity

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: The Irony of Favorable Laws

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Bruner Revisited

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