The days of Westerners traveling with safety, even in benighted lands, are over.

There's a good reason for tyrants to want it to be extremely difficult for anyone to get a car.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

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!

Our bureaucrats are not morons; quite the contrary.

And be proud of it?

China's masters are starting to act like they care about ordinary Chinese. Quite a new leaf for Communists.

They were "only following orders"...

Judges which rule based on feelings rather than the law, cause unintended consequences quite the opposite of what they wanted.