Celebrities helping the environment

I love Sheryl Crow’s music. She’s great. But just because someone can sing well, or act well, doesn’t mean they have a view more valid that your local taxi driver on political issues. They just have fame.

We see this on Sheryl’s blog where she comes up with a new way to save the planet:

I have spent the better part of this tour trying to come up with easy ways for us all to become a part of the solution to global warming. Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating. One of my favorites is in the area of conserving trees which we heavily rely on for oxygen. I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

Oh yes a toilet paper law. And yes she is serious. Now how will this work? Will there be special bog police who check how many squares you are using while having a crap?

Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required.

Now Sheryl has not specified if our allotted one square is single or double ply. Quick reconvene Congress. But why stop at one square – why not just provide high powered hoses with every toilet and supply no toilet paper – people just have to blast the crap away.

When presenting this idea to my younger brother, who’s judgement I trust implicitly, he proposed taking it one step further. I believe his quote was, “how bout just washing the one square out.”

I suspect the brother is kidding. Ms Crow however is not.

Hat Tip: The Briefing Room