• From “abundance of caution,” Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg orders ground stop for first time since 9/11, grounding all US commercial flights, because NOTAM warning system went down.
• For many years, NOTAM stood for “notice to airmen.” But Buttigieg changed it to “notice to air missions.”

We are ruled by bureaucrats who can’t keep planes in the air, but they can make terminology more “inclusive.” This is an example of Murphy’s Law of Priorities: The more time, energy, money, and resources you spend on trivia, the less you have for essentials, until you have almost none at all.