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.

Public education has gotten rid of the consequences of failure for both teachers and students, so of course very little education takes place.

Crackpots are thick on the ground and we can't fund them all. How do we decide which upcoming genius/crackpot to fund? Einstein didn't have any peers; he would never have passed "peer review."

It's possible that nobody will ever be able to build anything of significance again.