Tim Blair has a good post on the feasibility of flushing Korans. [Correction: It was Tom Paine's great post. All those Australians look alike to me, all upside-down and stuff.] Not wanting to trigger massive bloodshed throughout the Muslim world along with fatwas calling for his death, he based his empircal tests on a very rigorous protocol involving a similar book revered as holy writ by a similarly reactionary chunk of the world (Michael Moore’s “Stupid White Men”) and defended about as vehemently as the Koran by its adherents, though not as intelligibly. Blair proves that it’s just about impossible to flush a sizeable book down the terlet. (Though I’m surprised that Moore’s readings didn’t leave bigger skidmarks). Blair sums up future plans to validate these results thusly: “Coming up tomorrow - Chomsky in a blender!”
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