Do we really want to pay $3.5 Billion to change all the vending machines in the US, so they accept new bills that blind people can tell apart?

No clue what went wrong - quick, let's make new rules so it doesn't happen again!

And be proud of it?

They were "only following orders"...

When the paper is not to their liking, bureaucracies tend to have hissy-fits and throw their weight around.

CPS is another bureaucracy which has lost sight of its product and is caught up in process.

Dead rats, and dying patients.

Eternal vigilance is not only the price of liberty, it's also the price of parenthood.

What happens when the law forbids a company from firing an employee without a formal meeting, but a court has forbidden the employee from meeting with the company?

Air bag rules saved fewer than one tenth the lives they claimed they would save and killed people to boot.