Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
The writing style is awesome, I literally laughed out loud.<p>Beyond that, the article reminds us that in every industry there are powerful actors that protect their monopoly, and <i>will</i> coerce the government into helping them.<p>I read an article about import taxes on sugar that were created to keep out competition, and as a result everything uses corn syrup. Other examples abound.<p>Unfortunately, the solution of government oversight of itself (such as FBI breathing down the neck of the NSA), has  obvious circular drawbacks.