When modern life flushes you down the crapper

Please excuse the paucity of posts the past couple of days. I'm once again battling a nagging cold and I decided that sleep should be my primary concern.

But let's get back into the swing of things with a link to an extremely funny article at Slate, where Nick Schulz contends that the auto-flush toilet is "the most uncivilized technology of the modern age".

Good times.