Plumbing Pakistan: Flushing Common Sense

Its just after 10 am on the West Coast and already my piece in the LA Times today , based in part on my blogging of yesterday , is getting tons of responses. The sassiest and wisest reaction so far? From my very own webmaster, Luke Murphy, a witty Irishman who knows how to cut to the quick.

To quote Luke, Why did nobody point out at the very start that you cant flush a book down a toilet? Its like trying to flush a cinderblock. The Koran may have been placed inside a toilet which was subsequently flushed, or it may have been separated into its component pages which were further torn into small parts and flushed a small quantity at a time, thus requiring probably a full day of constant flushing to get the whole 6666 verses down the S-bend without causing a blockage. However, common sense dictates that nobody could flush the Koran down a toilet.

Now you know why we need working-class folks in the White House. Only they would have been able to make such an argument right away. So much for Dubya being a hands-on guy who spends weekends fixing stuff around the Crawford ranch.

Or maybe he secretly bought the line that a Koran could be flushed in one fell swoop. The explanation: ever heard of a miracle?