I vowed I wouldn’t waste a pixel over here, mentioning Sheryl Crow’s toilet paper strategy; the one sheet “per trip” idea, which will save the world in 10 years or less. Yeah, that one.
But this story from my native Kansas leads me to reconsider the whole idea.
The officials of the Hutchinson(KS) Correctional Facility are limiting inmates to one roll of TP at a time. The limit has been a long-standing limit, but not enforced. From the article:
Under the prison policy, inmates are restricted to four rolls of toilet paper each month or on an “as-needed” basis.
There were no details on the meaning of “as-needed”. I’m glad they spelled “as” properly, and that there were no problems with stuck keys, if you get my drift.
The correctional facility houses some 1600 inmates, and by saving a roll a month per inmate, $600 would be saved monthly. Quotiing more liberally than the AP might like:
“There are a lot of things that individually don’t cost much,” said Kansas Department of Corrections spokeswoman Frances Breyne. “But when you multiply that by hundreds, it makes a drastic impact.”
Schneider insists inmates won’t go without toilet paper. Charmin four-packs can be purchased at the prison canteen for $2.70, and anyone who produces an empty roll will receive a new roll of toilet paper.
One side effect of the policy could be that toilet paper will become a new form of currency among inmates.
Hutchinson, you need Sheryl Crow. With her policy, a case or two of TP could supply the prison for a month, and prevent the dread practice of Charmin becoming currency.
-k-
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Umm, Ken, I love you man.
Quit being had by the Michelle Malkin/Fox news people of the world.
The one square thing was a joke. I mean, come on, if you don’t get the joke part after the “removable dining sleeve” fashion line, I figure the reality show that awarded a recording contract to the “greenest” contestant (regardless of musical ability) suggestion should have spelled it out.
Harping on “wacked out libruls crazy ideas” is a really really old Rovian play. They take the absurd words (which were supposed to convey the JOKE) and treat them seriously and then count on an entire group of people who don’t follow links and read/interpret for themselves to take the words seriously too. Thus they can generate outrage against a philosophy that otherwise would include everyone but the people that make money off the pillage of our resources.
I mean, really, who doesn’t think they could do more to conserve natural resources? I can’t remember any lessons that I learned in the Midwest more vividly than the ones I learned about the Dust Bowl. It was all but drilled into our heads that conservation is the key to sustainability.
All this was just said in the hope that you don’t throw the baby out with the mirage of bath water, because that (for whatever reasons) is what the outrage machine wants you to do.
Sorry for two comments in one night, but Hutchinson is where I grew up and is basically my hometown. Crazy stuff that Correctional Facility out there…they seem to have break outs all the time…apparently for TP!