Here's a statement you probably never thought you'd hear: There's a real barnburner going on at the Illinois Commerce Commission.

The ICC? Home of the bureaucratic boredom Hall of Fame? Isn't that the place where "Buns of Steel" describes what's needed to sit through interminable arguments about penny-ante increases in electric and telephone rates?
—David Greising, "Trained Sitters Stand Up to Pair of Bulldozers," Chicago Tribune, June 11, 1999