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SNIPPET OF THE DAY – AT 8:43 A.M. ET:

From the Daily Caller: 

Federal copy editors are demanding New York City change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The Bronx — from the all-caps style used for more than a century to ones that capitalize only the first letters.  Changing BROADWAY to Broadway will save lives, the Federal Highway Administration contends in its updated Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, citing improved readability.  At $110 per sign, it will also cost the state $27.6 million, city officials said.

If you haven't been convinced that government is nuts, I hope you are now.  Changing signs may be desirable, but a lot of other things in society are desirable as well, and far more important than this.  And the federal government wanrts more power.