Agriculture

Amen:

The farm legislation proceeding through Congress symbolizes much of what's wrong with Washington. It's government by inertia. We do today what we did yesterday, because politicians draw their power from distributing benefits and various interest groups feel entitled to receive them -- even if they serve no defensible public purpose. Our extravagant farm programs capture the absurdity as well as any other.

I link to this mostly because it has a headline you will not see every day: "Pork industry supports Purdue's efforts to improve Indiana air quality." Of course, large pork operations do contribute to the air's condition, though we might not like to think about it: