Bureaucracy

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.

The Transportation Security Administration? Hardly. Thousands Standing Around? Not that either...

Dead rats, and dying patients.

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

It is a wonderful thing when truly stupid ideas return to bite the people that promoted them.

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?

Anyone who sends their children to a religious school may be permitted an 80% tax deduction of the tuition.

Air bag rules saved fewer than one tenth the lives they claimed they would save and killed people to boot. Not only that, air bags altered driver behavior -- anecdotal evidence suggests that drivers felt safer and went faster.

Socializing children is a lot easier than teaching them, so the concept of a teacher as a social engineer has become popular. Public education is free to customers, required by law, and still loses market share as parents switch to private schools and homeschooling.

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.

Government ought to be able to help the economy - assuming that politicians want the economy to grow and assuming that the government is able to do what the politicians promise.

We don't disparage the motives of politicians, they have the same motives we do. We don't distrust the motives of bureaucrats, we trust them all too well.