For more Bum Steers coverage, read about commercial airlines, Elon Musk, Ken Paxton, John Whitmire, and our Bum Steer of the Year, Jerry Jones. For some of this year’s more uplifting moments, check out the Best Things in Texas. There were many days in 2024 (okay, two . . . maybe three) when our biggest problems were nothing more than a drunkard unicycling naked down Main Street or a food truck accidentally baking a lizard into a tamale. But to a more shocking degree than usual, it was our well-credentialed institutions, not our inebriated brethren, that let us down. A hospital, an energy company, an airline, a state commission, a rural county constable’s office, and, of course, the Dallas Cowboys—if it has a human resources…