Example of what's wrong with our

There is a variety of tiny raisins which have been known as "midget raisins" for literally decades.  It's in the "official federal classification" of raisins.

Okay, so if you're first asking yourself why the h-e-youknowwhat we spend money for the federal government to define a multitude of different classifications for raisins in the first place, you grok the incredible bloat of government.  There is an ENORMOUS amount of money wasted by the government in absolutely meaningless activities (and LOTS of employees) measuring, classifying, grading, defining a lot of stuff that are, frankly, none of the government's business in the first place...and even when some of this is justified, they always carry it much too far.

Of course, all of this leads to regulations.  Loads, and loads, and loads of regulations.  Any raisin that doesn't measure up to Grade A standards must be dealt with harshly, perhaps waterboarded.

Well, it seems that the official designation of (presumably) smaller raisins as "midget raisins" will no longer be used because the term "midget" is offensive.  And, of course, there's been a regulation issued to that effect.  Probably, federal records will be retroactively scrubbed of all reference to "midget raisins" and any federal employee who utters the phrase will have to throw $1 into the Non-PC Jar.

All this came about because of a petition from "the little people" who, in my opinion, have only made themselves small in a different way.

I think about the problems we face today, and I think about bureaucrats in Washington going to work in the morning worrying about the "midget raisin issue", and I wonder how we got here.