The Onion has a great interview with P. J. O’Rourke.

…I feel like now, I guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian?and, indeed, many conservative?ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. It shows itself in all sorts of little ways. I’m not screaming about injustice here, or gulags. I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire… not killing yourself, basically. The tractor itself is covered with stickers: Don’t put your hand in here. Don’t put your dick in there. And in that manual, I found out?and it cost me a thousand dollars?that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don’t, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. A thousand dollars worth of wheels have to be replaced because I didn’t re-torque after 10 hours. How am I supposed to know that? “It’s in the manual.” You f***ing read that manual! You go through 40 pages of how not to tip over! Anyway, that’s the world that we seem to be moving into. And just because a society has absorbed these ideas and pays them lip service, anyone who’s talking about libertarian ideas and certain basic conservative principles will get people who nod politely and say, “Oh, yeah, we knew that already.” It’s a pain in the ass.

Go read the…well, you know the drill.