This wasn't one of the more upbeat unfinished sentences I've written, but it elicited some interesting responses in September 1991:
The term "bureaucracy" conjures up vile images when...
...I realize how many people use it as a means of escaping personal responsibility. (Christina N.)
...I think of thousands of people with the pallor of oatmeal and taste of the same resisting any change to become any better than they absolutely must and throwing money that isn't theirs into a bottomless pit. (Colin S.)
...(envisioning) small men with worthless PhDs and blue suits with brown ties "misfiling" random tax returns in the circular file, all the while prancing around in a circle and singing "Alcatraz" with glee. (Miranda G.)
