"organized chaos"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/4/2012 09:41 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>1913  C. D. Penn _The Navy under the Early Stuarts and its Influence on
>English History_ iii (Leighton Buzzard: Faith Press):  It was not the men
>that were at fault but the administration - that system of organized chaos
>which for corruption and malversation could scarcely be equalled, never
>perhaps be exceeded.

Something like a cat rodeo?

Joel

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