Interesting article about the US Agriculture Department (no really).

What knocked me on my backside was the opening paragraph...

The Department of Agriculture no longer serves as a lifeline to millions of struggling homestead farmers. Instead it is a vast, self-perpetuating, postmodern bureaucracy with an amorphous budget of some $130 billion — a sum far greater than the nation's net farm income this year.

In-freakin'-sane.

THIS is why we are good and truly fucked. The system is so far out of whack I simply cannot imagine how it can be fixed.