<blockquote>This odd place is an example of how hard it is to get a time-wasting bug out of a big bureaucratic system.

Held up by all that paper, work in the mine runs as slowly now as it did in 1977.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/03/22/sinkhole-of-bureaucracy/">Sinkhole of bureaucracy | The Washington Post</a>.