Initially, that bureaucracy was supplanted by pedantocracy gave hope to many that boondoggles, which resulted from mountains turned from molehills, would cease to play a part in affairs, but, instead, diplomats have now been sent to trek across ragged ranges in search of a legendary order of monks whose argute acumen and venerable veracity are said to be the only antidote to the never-ending emergence of Everest-sized earmarks in each enigmatic edit. ; )