Usually, when the subject comes up it is whacked rather firmly on the head and then goes back into hibernation for a couple of years until the public memory has forgotten that it's already been beaten to death. If I am to do some tea-leaf reading, I think that the biggest risk comes from plain attrition: The bad guys only have to win once; the good guys have to win every time.

Sooner or later, the bad guys are going to get lucky and slip something under the radar while everyone is looking at some other ball. In fact, this has already happened to some extent with the de-centralisation of the water and pollution regulation from the counties to the municipalities during the municipal reform. On the other hand, I take heart from the fact that this sort of things have been discussed since before I was born, and we still have untreated tap water in the vast majority of waterworks.

- Jake

Ceterum censeo Chicago esse delendam