EU and Egypt Cut Red Tape

The WaPost also has two stories on stifling buraucracies. In news that is sure to thrill Oktoberfest celebrants and apparently the mayor of Munich the EU will once again allow Bavarian barmaids to wear plunging necklines while working beer gardens. This was one among many EU regulations that are getting a second look. In Egypt there is also some reform afoot although it has little to do with beer and or cleavage, they're shutting down the Mugamma - the nightmarish Kafkaesque monstrosity that houses the elusive bureacratic mandarins who issued (when they felt like it) certificates of birth and death, licenses, permits etc.