Kafka meets Northcote Parkinson in Rochester

In today's NYTimes. It would be funny if it weren't another small step towards a police state. Best quote, straight from Parkinson's analysis of a how bureaucracies grows irrespectively of the amount of work it has to do:

In Rochester, the Border Patrol station opened in 2004, with four agents to screen passengers of a new ferry from Toronto. The ferry went bankrupt, but the unit has since grown tenfold.