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10/24/2004: "Back to basics: low flow toilets"
This year, I'm all about the war on terror. Still, I'm disturbed by the state of our federal government.
Paul Jacob's Town Hall editorial about toilets discusses one problem. Two excerpts:
Instead, I prefer to see what's left in the toilet bowl as a symbol of Congress. A clogged mass of disgusting waste.
and:
There have been several attempts, in recent years, to repeal this idiotic regulation of the toilet, allowing for larger reservoirs. Each attempt failed. And now the cause has been abandoned. Experts tell me that toilets have improved in recent years, and the pressure is off for reform.
I mentioned this to a builder recently. He was surprised. The toilets he installs are still as, er, crappy, as ever. "Oh, sure," he says, "the inner mechanics have improved. And the more expensive toilets do flush almost as well as they used to twenty years ago. But what family can afford to spend a thousand bucks on a toilet?"
Government is too large. It spends too much time micromanaging. Worse, neither viable party is willing to do anything about it.
Sometime in the next decade, Republicans are in for a huge civil war, with the quasi libertarians on one side and the "compassionate conservatives" on the other. For now, I'm glad we're united on the need to win the war on terror.
