I received a ticket today. As a government employee I am painfully aware how federal and state funding is at its annual end, and the police are prodded to extract revenue from the masses by playing a ridiculous game of numbers. Thirteen miles over the speed limit was the arbitrary number of the day. While in suburbanite cities such a speed could be hazardous to children at play; but on highways it is typically (as it was this day) the flow of traffic. The blue lights flicker and for a moment…