Revolution 2.0

Introduction The scariest part of our increasingly regulated society are the people who implement those regulations. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode.  Continuing When regulators regulate, bureaucrats are used to implement those regulations. Years ago, in 1998 to be exact, my wife and I were in the process of adopting a 10-year-old boy, who eventually became our much loved son. No thanks to our assigned clipboard holder. One of the myriad rules, hurdles mostly, that we had to comply with in order to complete the adoption, had to do with the temperature of our hot water. No, the rule was not in place to make sure there was sufficient hot water for everyone with an additional family member. The rule limited the max temperature after the hot water had run long enough to hit its high. After checking off other boxes on her forms, and, yes, she had a clipboard, she announced that she was going to check the water temperature. Withdrawing a thermometer that was at least a foot long from its case,