Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corruption and error hardwired at inception. - Jasper Fforde

Whatever. As far as I can see, there is one state of dead and that’s ‘not living.’ Now, do you have anything useful to add to this investigation or not?”

"I lost sixty soldiers under my command."
"Your fault?" I asked.
"No, but they were all my responsibility, so it amounts to the same thing."

My father said it was a delightfully odd—and dangerously self-destructive—quirk of humans that we were far more interested in pointless trivia then in genuine news stories.