There's nothing so absurd that someone won't propose it
For example, we are bombarded with information, much of it incorrect, about food and diet. At the edges this bleeds off into the truly absurd:
If the NHS is so good then we should be spending less than everyone else
Reason rather flies out the window when discussing the NHS, that Wonder of the World that it is. Yet we do rathre insist that we must retain that very reason when discussing it. For if the structure of the NHS, that idea of not just government financing but direct government provision of health care, is so good and wondrous then we should be spending less upon it than everyone else:
A lousy, stupid, no good, bad, law is being proposed
Worse than that, a lousy, stupid, no good, bad, law is being proposed to solve something that is not in fact a problem. Yes, the political classes have managed to get their knickers in a twist over people, spontaneously and on their own, allocating something to people who value it the most. They want to ban ticket scalping, or as we might put it, they want to stop people disposing of their own private property in whatever manner they desire:
