Tidbits: Toilets, Whitey, and Whoopi

Tidbits: Toilets, Whitey, and Whoopi

Toilets: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Under 3-term Mayor Michael Boomboom/Bloomberg, New York City is fast evolving into the Nanny Capital of America. Smoking is banned virtually everywhere, sodium-salt is restricted in restaurants, and sugary foods are next on the hit list as Bloomberg continues his quest to care for every health need of New Yorkers, at the expense of depriving them of the right to decide when and where they will puff and what they can eat.

Big Mike is watching you!

Perhaps bowing to complaints that the city is becoming a mini-nanny state with arbitrary rules imposed by an supposedly omniscient, authoritarian government, New York is now getting into toilets, actually into all things watery.

Already all the rage in Europe, “dual flush” toilets are coming to a New York bathroom near you.

As part of a wide-ranging water conservation law passed by the City Council this past week, “new toilets will have to be high water efficient or ‘dual-flush,’ which allow users to choose between a high pressure flush for solid waste, and a low-pressure flush for liquid:” http://tiny.cc/ao674

See! Bloomberg can now say, we allow individual decision-making, even if that decision is rather simple except in certain cases when toilet users . . . Well, use your own personal experience and imagination.

No word yet on whether thousands of new city workers will have to be hired to monitor strict compliance with the liquid-solid rules.

Whitey or Whitney?

Speaking of toilets, America’s educational system may be immersed in one but . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2243)