Douglas Adams put five books into his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy. KJR being a less ambitious undertaking, this will be the last installment in the Keep the Joint Running Centralization/Decentralization Trilogy.

And while Arthur Dent was endangered by the Vogons … the most dangerous bureaucrats in a multidimensional universe … we’re merely trying to avoid creating any more run-of-the-mill corporate bureaucracy than we have to.

A ship can only have one captain. A car can only have one driver. We can’t all just hold hands and sing Kumbaya — someone has to make a decision and take responsibility.

In the world of metaphor, centralized control always seems to make more sense.

The evidentiary world is less certain. Take, for example, a little something I like to call the “Internet.” You might have heard of it.