Matthew Hunter wrote: > Now, it seems to me that if you had paid attention to the > irritating, always-underfoot, and yapping behaviors in a timely > fashion, you would have fewer issues with the floor being peed > upon. But that's just me. > > (And let this example state a clear and compelling case *against* > a command economy! The invisible hand of the market will > allocate its waste-disposal resources more efficiently without > the interference of a communal gatekeeper whose excretory needs > are not closely tied to the other individuals in his community! > Thus proven, ladies and gentlefolk: Communism results in a pile > of crap.) Ah, but Matthew your argument presumes that the communal gatekeeper does not have the same excretory needs as other individuals in his community. I must conclude that you have no young children or you could not have missed that best-selling masterpiece of toddler non-fiction _Everyone Poops_. > There, that should be inflammatory enough to draw a response. For inflammatory, you should read _The Gas We Pass_, which came up as a companion offer when I looked up _Everyone Poops_ on Amazon. Casey